I wish all magazine advertisements were like this

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On Bookslut they linked this, and, aaagh! Is this how Vonnegut was, always, or have I got some filter that no one else has?

Quote:

Kurt Vonnegut: What are you effing writing now?

Kilgore Trout: It’s about how the future has as much to do with the present as the past does. Giraffes can only have come from the future. There’s no way evolution in the past would have let something that defenseless and impractical live for 15 minutes.

Okay, Mr. Vonnegut! Great! I'm glad you like to make statements that, though whimsical, can be disproven in seconds by asking someone who's seen a giraffe before, even on television. 'Folk wisdom' of that sort where you sacrifice meaning and thought to make a cute little memetic observation (If a real person was shaped like a barbie, they'd snap in half! You swallow ten spiders a year in your sleep!) is a really poor tendency of ours. It depends on our rabid willingness to accept pat ideas where they're not warranted.

Sorry, sir, but pretty much nothing fucks with adult giraffes. They can kick hard enough to crush lions' skulls, and they can run faster than most things. Baby giraffes do get eaten, but baby pretty much everything gets eaten too, and this doesn't make them evolutionarily unviable.
And your joke about tying your shoes betraying your fear of commitment is depressing.