Monday, March 12, 2018

And mimosas?

Stephen Jay Gould said interbreeding a chimpanzee with a human being would be “the most potentially interesting and ethically unacceptable experiment I can imagine.” I believe this shows a lack of imagination. What about creating a hideous chimera that was simultaneously a breath mint and a candy mint? Or an unnatural garment that combined the functions of shirt and jacket? Suppose a twisted genius were to bring together the attributes of a fork and a spoon in a single utensil? What if it occurred to some rogue restaurateur to combine breakfast with lunch? What if it included a jazz trio?

2 comments:

Aggie said...

Or consider the unimaginably perverse fever dreams of a morally corrupt clothing designer, inexorably driving him to create the unholiest of unions between a pair of shorts and a skirt.

Dave Maleckar said...

The horror! These are mysteries best left to God.