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"All the time the fat old woman glowered at her from under her gorillalike eye ridges; what was the theory that Aegypta Schenck had packed inside her book? That men and women were descended out of apes? An absurd notion. Though one could see how it had occurred to her.

"Absurd because we still have animals inside of us, as Cleopatra kept her cat. We are not the end of some process. That was Aegypta Schenck trying to make sense out of the world. Instead we all have animals scratching to get out, which is why sometimes it is so hard to stay in our own skin. Why our skin seethes and prickles and we wake up desperate [...]"

-- Paul Park, A Princess of Roumania, 2005, Tor / Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, New York,; ISBN: 0-765-34950-7, EAN: 978-0-765-34590-7

I am feeling better now (as of sometime last night, actually) than I have in weeks. This is quite a relief. But I've got things to take care of in Bowie, so my making it to rehearsal tonight is still uncertain, depending on how long things take there first.