Every one knew how laborious the usual Method is of attaining to Arts and Sciences; whereas by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.

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Fanciful. Preposterous. Absurd.
Ebu Gogo in Clay

Posted on Saturday 11 December 2004


Clay model of a 30 year old Hobbit woman by Carol Lentfer.

Got the cellulite but where are those pendulous breasts?

UPDATE:

Most anthropologists believe that homo floresiensis became extinct and only a skeletal record of their existence remains. A minority of anthropologists, however, particularly those in the field of political anthropology, are convinced that homo floresiensis did not go extinct.

“In fact,” says Dr. F riedrich Nudelmann who is the chair of the political anthropology department at the Spukenheim Universität of Wahlgestohlen-Pferdapfel, “the evidence is overwhelming that this distant relative of homo sapiens sapiens has flourished and continues to thrive right under our noses.”


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