dan michaels  wrote:

> "Peter F"  wrote...
> 
> > ................
> > Furthermore, that those mutants would , it seems likely, have to be so
> > profoundly passive in response to provokation of any sort (e.g. any utter
> > deprivation of whatever remaining instinctive need that their engineered
> > genome would be programmed to "phenotypically express")
 that they would
> > therefore also not care the slightest about their (perhaps with such
> > alterations associated) lack of spleens, livers and gal-bladders.
> 
> 
> Peter, you've just used an efficient sentence of only about 100 words,
> many valued at $64 or more, to describe an Eloi [cf Verne, The Time
> Machine]. In contrast, I've had to expend 1000s of words to try
> explain the same thing to Michael. You are much smarter than I am.
> 
Minor nit: H.G. Wells, not Jules Verne, and Morlocks, not Eloi:
http://www.bartleby.com/1000/5.html

-- 
John Wilkins
B'dies, Brutius
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