Space Forum / Astronomy / January 2005

~ My Attic vessel sales well @ Auction!

“A young [wo]man grew increasingly peaky
In a house where hinges were squeaky.
The ferns curled up brown,
The ceilings flaked down,
And all of the  faucets were leaky.”

~ Edward Gorey,
From “The Listing Attic”

~ Listing
Left ~ over
Ward~

O, by the way, anyone seen, gone
This way, that groundbreaking
Leakey family? Say, Louis, Mary, or
Richard, without whom, our backbreaking
Story of how we evolved, would
Still be largely untold?

Bones, bones, those anthropods ~
They have my missing bones!
Please, if you see, just get on the phone,
Just promptly call me!

[PS. Ms.
Mary, yes, once lectured me ~ But alas,
After class,
No bones did she leave me!]

“Louis Leakey’s enthusiasm for Africa
and the search for earliest man were infectious.
Speaking before a packed lecture hall
in his staccato-like voice, punctuated by rapid inhales,
he cast a spell, making each listener believe
he was speaking only to him or her.
His following in America was cultlike.
Consumed with devotion and swept up in his charisma,
many developed a desire to follow somehow
in his footsteps, to please him.”
~ By Donald C. Johanson,
From “Time”

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/leakey.html

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