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“Look, it’s been swell, but the swelling’s gone down.”

I hope you're having a reasonably good week.

I'm currently reading this book for University about literature and in the chapter about writing short stories one of the first advices it gives is that everything you write has to be based on a critical response to 'something real' or it isn't worth the time of writing it and that the world doesn't need fiction that 'merely passes the time'.

Something about this doesn't feel right for me, but I can't put my finger on it.

What are your thoughts on this? Would you agree?

Best wishes :D

I had a molecular biology professor who referred it to “vacuum packing” where many extinct animals are rendered slimmer or muscular than they may have been, since things like body fat and fur are not preserved during fossilization. So our view of animals like dinosaurs may be entirely inaccurate.

There’s actually a book, All Yesterdays, in which the artist, CM Koseman, draws modern animals as we might have interpreted them to look if we found them extinct the same way do dinosaurs.

Fun examples include:

The manatee

An elephant

Swans

And literally the picture of the hippo