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built the foundation for an ongoing dynasty so beautiful and fantastic that I doubt we could have dreamed them if we didn’t already know they existed. Even monsters of fantasy—wyverns, the Cyclops, chimeras, and the whole mythological lot—pale in comparison to the real animals paleontologists are continuing to excavate.

"I ike to think of these major events as what fantasy satirist Terry Pratchett once characterized as bifurcations in the trousers of time. The history we know went down one leg, but there was another possible outcome. The constrained limits of our imaginations are the only ways to visit those alternate histories. We’ll never know all the unrealized evolutionary possibilities, but the survival of the dinosaurs.."

Audio book

Really enjoying this!

This is sort of feeling like that thing you can't stop watching even though it's awful.

I feel like DS Norman and Murray are carrying around the stupid ball. Intensely annoying.