The
turtles lifted their scrotum-like heads, and the young beavers danced,
and the pelicans stuffed their robust gullets, and it was at this
moment, and only this moment that the red-headed woman spoke of the
terrorists. The fanfare of the fauna resulted not from slender chance, for the lesser
beings understood a certain law of nature. Even those with abundant
grey matter and opposing thumbs are bound by the principles of the
wild. Yes, even humans, stately in the upright posture, are prone to bestial acts.