So, I was reading Leonard Shlain's Sex, Time, and Power How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution. I'm not the one to go out of my way to read something located in the Women's lit section, but it's Leonard Shlain! The same guy who wrote Art and Physics and the Alphabet Verses the Goddess, two books that should be read immediatly by everyone. Before the very first chapter he wrote something that I thought most of the Coulsbyites would find entertaining so I thought I'd repost it for ya'll.
"The emergence approximately 150,000 years ago of Homo sapiens, an animal that opened a chasm between it and all other species, was as improbable an event as coming upon a nude Caucasian woman reclining on an Empire couch in the middle of the jungle."
The painting is Henri Rousseau's The Dream.
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