>>Humans, with their useless, nonthinking but ever scheming big brains, are much more like yeast in a barrel of grape juice or bacteria in a petri dish, or even an AIDS virus that kills its host.
My contention is that humans are like "everything," particularly like similes and metaphors, especially when they are not.
He of the old rope-a-trope, Pseudo Parmenides PS: Happy Phonograph Invention Day! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html