Talking to Linnea

[ailbhe]

Today I had an opportunity to discuss evolution from the primordial slime, extinction, and the food chain.

I turned it down.

Among other things, I'd had a little more than five hours sleep at that point, after a trying (though also delightful) day. She was clearly not well, and emotionally fragile, which leads me to believe that explaining in depth concepts such as death and eating living things and rocks in outer space crashing into the earth and killing everything might not be a great idea.

She has decided that dinosaurs weren't allowed to eat people so they had to all go away to dinosaur-land. She knows this is a pretend explanation but she's happy with it. So am I.

Comments

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a great explanation! I love, love, love their minds and the connections they make :-)

Today, we started in on prehistoric humans, prompted by the out-of-the-blue question "but why did pillows used to be stones?" - a reference to a line from "The Owl" by Walter de la Mare,* which Unny has loved since I started saying it to him about a year ago, and is now starting to puzzle out.

* Gosh. I can't seem to find it online. How disorienting! The line in question is "...and the ancient dread of Man, when cold root or stone pillowed roofless head".

[ailbhe]

Am need phone. *hunts* You need to tell me not to call in x minutes or less. Fewer.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Jack knows that there were dinosaurs and now there aren't, they all died. However, his explanation is that the bad dinosaurs killed the goods. I haven't managed to get an explanation of what happened to the bads yet!