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"Even though harmless insects exhibiting this sightless stare bring to mind panthers or owls, their false eyes are reptilian, these markings having evolved before mammals appeared. ... When a moth or other creature displays one, it is displaying, most probably, a picture of a dinosaur's eye created by natural selection" (177-178) this blew my mind and is so cool

"The visual lexicon of American identity in particular has changed emphasis; bigness still defines it, but a bigness grown pillowy and flaccid and fluffy and fat, like babies, or pneumatic and engorged, like the hard-bodied flesh of athletes—the aesthetic of the animated cartoon writ large ...The new aesthetic seems to me part of a generalized cult of childishness, a widespread, let's-pretend infantilism."(158-159)

"Family portraits show that children used to be outfitted like their parents. Now, in the well-nourished West, adipose, amorphous, squidgy adult bodies grow larger and more shapeless in cushiony shell suits and bright Babygro colours, with squishy air-filled trainers on their feet and travel mugs in hand so that they can suck every now and then and the dread day of weaning can be postponed forever." (158) yeeeesh

"Post-1950s conditions in the consuming West have changed the relation of many infants to scarcity and need: death does not bear them away as it did—thankfully, though poverty and all its attendant ills (which include junk food) still bedevil many families in most prosperous and stable societies, including Britain and the United States." (146) ah yes, poverty definitely causes *checks notes* junk food?

"...ambitious comic carnival drama: a series of adventures with animated effigies—including a giant fourteen-foot Guy, a Rastafarian singer, a game host, and some enormous snails racing in a snail race." (111) as is...traditional?

"In the village of Sticklepath in Devon," (110) STICKLEPATH

"'Cock Lorrel's Treat' was printed in Thomas Percy's first edition of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, but it was removed by the book's learned (and Anglican) editor after the Duchess of Northumberland became his patron and he assumed it might offend her.
The title refers to a satire that Wynkyn de Worde printed," (395) wait that was the name of a printer???

"The most terrifying of bogeys may not always be men (or women, but their connection with food remains constant: they are ravenous, and ravenous for the wrong food. ... When it comes to ogres in fantasy, the fundamental principle behind ideas of pollution can be applied with a difference—not dirt in the wrong place, but the wrong food on the table dished up in the wrong way." (36)

"But such metamorphoses can also provide release from self: they are a form of joking, of storytelling, and they offer supple resources for transforming anxiety into pleasure." (18) supple