Oh, The reptile and the mammal should be friends,The reptile and the mammal should be friends, One of them likes to lie and sun,The other should have cut and run,The reptile and the mammal should have been friends,
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, (errata: ow, ooh, stop that)
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s Contumely, The pangs of despised Love, the Law’s delay, The insolence of Office, and the Spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his Quietus make With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn No Traveler returns, Puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus Conscience does make Cowards of us all, And thus the Native hue of Resolution Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of Thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their Currents turn awry, And lose the name of Action. Soft you now, The fair Ophelia. Nymph, in all thy Orisons Be thou all my sins remembered.
This is a brilliantly clever reveal. Neathery is a genius. In panel 3, it’s a view of a view of a resistance fighter putting up a defiant defence to the last. In panel 4, it’s a poor figure on his knees, having bee shot in the back. His face in panel 3 is grim determination. Then seeing what we see in 4, we go back and look at his face again, and it’s dumb agony and death. And Piotr’s words are a blend of propaganda, resignation and disgust.
The Fool On The Sillby Jennerto the tune of The Fool On The Hill by Lennon and Mc CartneyDay after day, alone on a sill,The man with the reckless grin is kneeling perfectly stillBut nobody wants to know himThey can see that he’s just a foolAnd he always looks defiantBut the fool on the sillSees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downBarb in his hands, fletch in the aftThe last of a thousand martyrs falling foul of a shaftBut nobody ever hears himThey don’t need what he has to sellAnd he only knows of coldnessBut the fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downAnd nobody likes his storyDoesn’t end very well at allThey’re planning to write it overBut the fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downHe never listens to themHe stands above them all Not foreverThe fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee their world coming down
Were these lizards former members of the ShutzStaffel? The Museum of a conquered race, the lame excuses for genocide, the willingness to rewrite history to make themselves look good. An air of arrogance and superiority.Yep, that’s everything on the checklist.I’d like to see how these these bozos deal with a cold snap!They’ll be nice and vulnerable…
“No sense in forcing our guilt upon future generations…”
That is brilliant. You have to wonder how many atrocities have been written out of the history books with that rationalization. And how many might have been avoided had they not.
Also putting a statue like that up “in memoriam” implies at least a mention in the Official History. Depends on who writes the Official History, though.
So far, we’re batting 1000!.Just when we thought things could not get any worse….Guess what? Things just got worse. Much, much worse..Piotr seems to admit that there is “guilt.” And the narrative, along with the memorial statue, suggests that death, even murder, was involved..But it is not at all clear how Piotr is processing it..Another question: Why on earth would anybody erect such a statue? If the lizards are going to write an official history, it would seem that the first thing to go would be this statue..Piotr has said, he was “selected” to recruit Sarah to the colony. His comments to Sarah have suggested that he was less than willing in this endeavor. He has yet to show Sarah anything GOOD about this colony – and I think he knows it..As outsiders, it is easy for us to say, what Piotr should be saying, is “Run away, run away, while you still can!”.As my head still spins from all of this, it occurs to me, if Piotr has any intentions with Sarah, perhaps it might be to encourage her to flee – and plan to flee with her!.His actions up to this point would not be inconsistent with such an intent..Of course, Piotr joining Sarah, Wally, Holly, and Jim in a breakout from Lizardville; I do not know how that would set with Jim..But it is a plot twist that might brighten up this story that, when it comes to darkness, has become a bottomless pit..Those of us who have fallen in, we aren’t coming out until we reach China!
Will there be future generations to worry about forcing guilt upon? According to TSOJ, Aaron has stated that there have been children born after the great mutation and that Chic, age 4, is one of them. We have yet to learn how childbirth and mutation combine. Would children take the apparent species of one of their parents or would the apparent species of the child be truly random? We know that Chic was born after the mutation event and that the truth behind his existence is considered dangerous, Phil was able to use it to browbeat the colony’s leader. I’m guessing that Chic is one of the first children born in the colony, probably the son of the leader and his wife (also “Reptilian”). His existence in the colony may be dangerous because he’s proof that lizard on lizard does not necessarily produce lizards. It would also explain why Chic passed up a chance to leave a place that he considers a “dump” and his only friend is a bug. Leaving may involve leaving his family. It would also explain why the fearless leader was upset at Phil beating Chic.
Sorry, but that is not a flattering statue, and I’m still not convinced of the genuineness of this guy’s story…personally, I think he’s fallen for the propaganda…that’s awfully what it sounds like he’s spouting at least.
even though our own country is guilty of many things similar I disapprove off, this really shows the concetrated e-vil of the lizards.That statue makes me want to hate them severely. Even tho I don’t like to hate.The re-writing of history is always by the winners, of course, but something similar is going on right here right now. Texas school books, are widely distributed, and the most radical of the Christian right wing in Texas is re-writing history making it something which it is not. I try not to make this into a statement to be debated, never. but when things hit so close to truth, it’s hard not to make an opinion. If I need to delete this or change it I will.
This is a Museum of shame not meant to be seen by outsiders. What would far distant future generations make of our culture, curated by someone who thinks they know what was culturally relevant to us.There’s a book by David MaCaulay called Motel of the Mysteries. It’s a great send up of stuffy museum curators and unexplainable artifacts that we would understand, but not someone who has never seen a TV or a Toilet Seat before.I wonder what Wally would do if he saw that “exhibit” to genocide.“First they came for the Ovo-Lacto’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Ovo-Lacto.“Then they came for the insectoid’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Insectoid“Then they came for the Rodents”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Rodent“Then they came for the fish people”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t one of the Fish People“Then they came for the Bovine’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a BovineThen they came for me, and there was no one to speak up for me.Our endless and pointless quest to force society to homogenize itself. When simply given enough time will matriculate on it’s own, is one of man’s greatest follies.The South’s efforts with the Jim Crow laws and the Klan trying foolishly to prevent the inevitable with bigotry and violence in a vain attempt to hold onto a value system that for all intents and purposes subverts the Constitution and pays lip service to G-d’s law when it serves them well to do so.The sheer arrogance of the lizards transcends their current genetic makeup, they are Human to the core no matter how much they deny it.In creating such a blatant excressence, that only their own will see, they’ve proven they are no better than the Topsider’s Perhaps there’s a chance someone will tip the Topsider’s off as to the location of their city. The resulting battle would help solve two problems.
“Children, here we have the Shrine to the Misguided. These poor souls aspired to be equal to lizardkind, but of course they could not, as they were not of lizard form. They would rather die than accept lizard supremacy, and we could not convince them otherwise… Yes, Jimmy?”
“Why weren’t they culled from their clutches like others with such deformities?”
“Alas, they were not born of eggs like we are. They were the first to suffer the ravages of the End War, and could not have been saved from the horrid fate of nonlizard life, nor realize how they suffered in such a condition. At least the Culled do not have to endure the pain of Mercy as the Misguided did.”
I’m not particularly fond of lizardtown or its inmates, but I’m not quite ready to consign them to Topsider status just yet. The TS are putting a significant portion of their resources into a war of mutant extermination. They have teams roaming the countryside in PTs searching for mutants to kill. They have destroyed several mutant colonies and would have destroyed Endtown and its 7,000 inhabitants if Mallard & Flask were a little less on the ball. They not only kill mutants but harvest their brains for use in their devices.Evicting and slaughtering the people who helped build your home is as reprehensible as all get out. It makes the things they’ve done to Wally, Holly and Jim seem tame. Still, we have yet to see evidence that they have raided other colonies and wiped out their inhabitants (like was done with West Alboin) or that they have been cooking nonreptilian prisoners. Until I see evidence that Lizardtown has crossed that moral horizon, I won’t quite say they’re as bad as the Topsiders. Not to say that they are good by any means, and shouldn’t have been better than they are.
The other sad irony is that they have created an orchestra of trumpets. One thing that musicians and composers have understood throughout the ages is that different instruments playing different notes are capable of creating music that is far richer than any group of identical instruments are capable of creating. I think it is the same with people. Different people have different perspectives and different outlooks. With a diverse group you have the potential to see things and find solutions that a group of identical individuals may never see. Having individuals of different sizes and shapes also has advantages. Imagine a team with individuals with Gustine’s strength, Holly’s speed and ability to fit into small spaces, Wally’s technical prowess and combat abilities, Mallard’s brilliance. I’d take that group over a team of lizards. Heck, I’d take that group over a team of Flasks (though a team of Flasks would be easier on the eyes.)
I tried looking for a monument in the U.S. showing the Indian side of the fighting. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find anything showing them losing (or winning, for that matter). In Little Big Horn, there’s just a bunch of square stones saying “Such-and-such warrior died here fighting for his way of life”.
This is the genius of Neathery. He will introduce you to new peoples and new individuals. Some you will love, and some you will hate. And then he will take those you love and make you hate them. And he will take those you hate and make you love them.What a consummate story teller.
Thoughts on the second day of this revelation..The statue is over-the-top grisly. Who made it? The reptiles? Or the victims?.If the victims made it, and the reptiles have yet to write their “official history,” then likely the statue is slated for removal, but they haven’t gotten around to it just yet..Why is Piotr starting with the worst of his colony?.The more I think of it, and the way he seems to have dodged some of Sarah’s questions, I am coming to believe that Piotr wants to escape!.And I believe he is “feeling out” Sarah as to whether he can trust her with his secret!.I’m hoping for some kind of twist like this. Something to end this ever downward spiral..From others’ comments, I gather that the worst people on this planet are – the people (aka Topsiders). And the animals are becoming just as bad as the people (lizards, front and center, but Endtown has its issues, as well)..Piotr’s escape with Sarah would be infinite complications for Jim, probably Holly and Wally, as well. But it would provide a much needed lift to this story.
One thing I have to give America credit for is that we haven’t shied away from teaching and discussing many of the less than noble things we have done. Students learn about how we wiped off the land’s native population and tossed them onto reservations, about slavery and Jim Crow and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. There are some that argue that these things never happened, that they weren’t as bad as they were portrayed or that they were the right thing to do, but we still have these conversations.It is my understanding that in Japan, there is very little understanding about the atrocities that Japanese committed during World War II. That Japanese students are not taught about the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. That many Japanese have no idea why so many people in Asia still hate them. I think it is too tempting to rewrite history so that the bad things are ignored. That’s why I’m proud that America still has these conversations, or at least some of them.
JanBic Premium Member over 10 years ago
Ouch
Ida No over 10 years ago
Piotr: “You should have seen what we were forced to do to the buffaloes.”
JusSayin over 10 years ago
Oh, The reptile and the mammal should be friends,The reptile and the mammal should be friends, One of them likes to lie and sun,The other should have cut and run,The reptile and the mammal should have been friends,
Vote ENDTOWN
Vote Doc Rat
Sincerely,
JusSayin
Is that an Al Jolson pose? Mammy
JusSayin over 10 years ago
To be, or not to be, that is the question—
Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, (errata: ow, ooh, stop that)
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life: For who would bear the Whips and Scorns of time, The Oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s Contumely, The pangs of despised Love, the Law’s delay, The insolence of Office, and the Spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his Quietus make With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered Country, from whose bourn No Traveler returns, Puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus Conscience does make Cowards of us all, And thus the Native hue of Resolution Is sicklied o’er, with the pale cast of Thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard their Currents turn awry, And lose the name of Action. Soft you now, The fair Ophelia. Nymph, in all thy Orisons Be thou all my sins remembered.
- Hamlet, Piglet’s older brother…
Jenner Premium Member over 10 years ago
This is a brilliantly clever reveal. Neathery is a genius. In panel 3, it’s a view of a view of a resistance fighter putting up a defiant defence to the last. In panel 4, it’s a poor figure on his knees, having bee shot in the back. His face in panel 3 is grim determination. Then seeing what we see in 4, we go back and look at his face again, and it’s dumb agony and death. And Piotr’s words are a blend of propaganda, resignation and disgust.
Robert Nowall Premium Member over 10 years ago
Mention of “future generations” implies there will be future generations…
Jenner Premium Member over 10 years ago
The Fool On The Sillby Jennerto the tune of The Fool On The Hill by Lennon and Mc CartneyDay after day, alone on a sill,The man with the reckless grin is kneeling perfectly stillBut nobody wants to know himThey can see that he’s just a foolAnd he always looks defiantBut the fool on the sillSees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downBarb in his hands, fletch in the aftThe last of a thousand martyrs falling foul of a shaftBut nobody ever hears himThey don’t need what he has to sellAnd he only knows of coldnessBut the fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downAnd nobody likes his storyDoesn’t end very well at allThey’re planning to write it overBut the fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee his world coming downHe never listens to themHe stands above them all Not foreverThe fool on the sill Sees the blood flowing downAnd the eyes in his headSee their world coming down
Melkior over 10 years ago
It’s been said before but it bears repeating: The history of a war is written by the victors.
Space_cat over 10 years ago
Were these lizards former members of the ShutzStaffel? The Museum of a conquered race, the lame excuses for genocide, the willingness to rewrite history to make themselves look good. An air of arrogance and superiority.Yep, that’s everything on the checklist.I’d like to see how these these bozos deal with a cold snap!They’ll be nice and vulnerable…
notfurry over 10 years ago
“No sense in forcing our guilt upon future generations…”
That is brilliant. You have to wonder how many atrocities have been written out of the history books with that rationalization. And how many might have been avoided had they not.
Bravo, Aaron, for a look into ourselves.
Robert Nowall Premium Member over 10 years ago
Also putting a statue like that up “in memoriam” implies at least a mention in the Official History. Depends on who writes the Official History, though.
BBWolf128 over 10 years ago
Yes. The fact that the statue depicts someone shot in the back, was not lost on me. And the resemblance to another hare.
BBWolf128 over 10 years ago
Well all floppy ears and puffy tails look sort of similar.
The Life I Draw Upon over 10 years ago
Cultural transmission * retaliation is a must?
salenstormwing over 10 years ago
Such humanitarians. On the plus side, the next night had rabbit stew on the menu in the dining hall.
yangeldf over 10 years ago
is he even TRYING to spin this so he sounds like a good guy? Because it seems more like he’s completely delusional.
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
So far, we’re batting 1000!.Just when we thought things could not get any worse….Guess what? Things just got worse. Much, much worse..Piotr seems to admit that there is “guilt.” And the narrative, along with the memorial statue, suggests that death, even murder, was involved..But it is not at all clear how Piotr is processing it..Another question: Why on earth would anybody erect such a statue? If the lizards are going to write an official history, it would seem that the first thing to go would be this statue..Piotr has said, he was “selected” to recruit Sarah to the colony. His comments to Sarah have suggested that he was less than willing in this endeavor. He has yet to show Sarah anything GOOD about this colony – and I think he knows it..As outsiders, it is easy for us to say, what Piotr should be saying, is “Run away, run away, while you still can!”.As my head still spins from all of this, it occurs to me, if Piotr has any intentions with Sarah, perhaps it might be to encourage her to flee – and plan to flee with her!.His actions up to this point would not be inconsistent with such an intent..Of course, Piotr joining Sarah, Wally, Holly, and Jim in a breakout from Lizardville; I do not know how that would set with Jim..But it is a plot twist that might brighten up this story that, when it comes to darkness, has become a bottomless pit..Those of us who have fallen in, we aren’t coming out until we reach China!
cindyorch over 10 years ago
talk about an “elite people”….run, I say, RUN!!
Darwinskeeper over 10 years ago
Will there be future generations to worry about forcing guilt upon? According to TSOJ, Aaron has stated that there have been children born after the great mutation and that Chic, age 4, is one of them. We have yet to learn how childbirth and mutation combine. Would children take the apparent species of one of their parents or would the apparent species of the child be truly random? We know that Chic was born after the mutation event and that the truth behind his existence is considered dangerous, Phil was able to use it to browbeat the colony’s leader. I’m guessing that Chic is one of the first children born in the colony, probably the son of the leader and his wife (also “Reptilian”). His existence in the colony may be dangerous because he’s proof that lizard on lizard does not necessarily produce lizards. It would also explain why Chic passed up a chance to leave a place that he considers a “dump” and his only friend is a bug. Leaving may involve leaving his family. It would also explain why the fearless leader was upset at Phil beating Chic.
scyphi26 over 10 years ago
Sorry, but that is not a flattering statue, and I’m still not convinced of the genuineness of this guy’s story…personally, I think he’s fallen for the propaganda…that’s awfully what it sounds like he’s spouting at least.
pam Miner over 10 years ago
even though our own country is guilty of many things similar I disapprove off, this really shows the concetrated e-vil of the lizards.That statue makes me want to hate them severely. Even tho I don’t like to hate.The re-writing of history is always by the winners, of course, but something similar is going on right here right now. Texas school books, are widely distributed, and the most radical of the Christian right wing in Texas is re-writing history making it something which it is not. I try not to make this into a statement to be debated, never. but when things hit so close to truth, it’s hard not to make an opinion. If I need to delete this or change it I will.
Woodrabbit over 10 years ago
And he/she is a rabbit? I wonder if this is hint of something or it is just something in rabbits to get rised in high and visible places.
Space_cat over 10 years ago
This is a Museum of shame not meant to be seen by outsiders. What would far distant future generations make of our culture, curated by someone who thinks they know what was culturally relevant to us.There’s a book by David MaCaulay called Motel of the Mysteries. It’s a great send up of stuffy museum curators and unexplainable artifacts that we would understand, but not someone who has never seen a TV or a Toilet Seat before.I wonder what Wally would do if he saw that “exhibit” to genocide.“First they came for the Ovo-Lacto’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Ovo-Lacto.“Then they came for the insectoid’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an Insectoid“Then they came for the Rodents”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Rodent“Then they came for the fish people”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t one of the Fish People“Then they came for the Bovine’s”I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a BovineThen they came for me, and there was no one to speak up for me.Our endless and pointless quest to force society to homogenize itself. When simply given enough time will matriculate on it’s own, is one of man’s greatest follies.The South’s efforts with the Jim Crow laws and the Klan trying foolishly to prevent the inevitable with bigotry and violence in a vain attempt to hold onto a value system that for all intents and purposes subverts the Constitution and pays lip service to G-d’s law when it serves them well to do so.The sheer arrogance of the lizards transcends their current genetic makeup, they are Human to the core no matter how much they deny it.In creating such a blatant excressence, that only their own will see, they’ve proven they are no better than the Topsider’s Perhaps there’s a chance someone will tip the Topsider’s off as to the location of their city. The resulting battle would help solve two problems.
Coyoty Premium Member over 10 years ago
“Children, here we have the Shrine to the Misguided. These poor souls aspired to be equal to lizardkind, but of course they could not, as they were not of lizard form. They would rather die than accept lizard supremacy, and we could not convince them otherwise… Yes, Jimmy?”
“Why weren’t they culled from their clutches like others with such deformities?”
“Alas, they were not born of eggs like we are. They were the first to suffer the ravages of the End War, and could not have been saved from the horrid fate of nonlizard life, nor realize how they suffered in such a condition. At least the Culled do not have to endure the pain of Mercy as the Misguided did.”
Vet Premium Member over 10 years ago
Does this remind anybody of Topsiders Doctrine??Wonder if they have a statue of dusted mutants??
UBBM Premium Member over 10 years ago
It reminds me of the various ‘dying barbarian’ statues the ancient Romans made.
kazen101 over 10 years ago
I’m sure everyone they killed rests better knowing their murderers were ‘brought together’ as they carried out their extermination.
Darwinskeeper over 10 years ago
I’m not particularly fond of lizardtown or its inmates, but I’m not quite ready to consign them to Topsider status just yet. The TS are putting a significant portion of their resources into a war of mutant extermination. They have teams roaming the countryside in PTs searching for mutants to kill. They have destroyed several mutant colonies and would have destroyed Endtown and its 7,000 inhabitants if Mallard & Flask were a little less on the ball. They not only kill mutants but harvest their brains for use in their devices.Evicting and slaughtering the people who helped build your home is as reprehensible as all get out. It makes the things they’ve done to Wally, Holly and Jim seem tame. Still, we have yet to see evidence that they have raided other colonies and wiped out their inhabitants (like was done with West Alboin) or that they have been cooking nonreptilian prisoners. Until I see evidence that Lizardtown has crossed that moral horizon, I won’t quite say they’re as bad as the Topsiders. Not to say that they are good by any means, and shouldn’t have been better than they are.
Darwinskeeper over 10 years ago
The other sad irony is that they have created an orchestra of trumpets. One thing that musicians and composers have understood throughout the ages is that different instruments playing different notes are capable of creating music that is far richer than any group of identical instruments are capable of creating. I think it is the same with people. Different people have different perspectives and different outlooks. With a diverse group you have the potential to see things and find solutions that a group of identical individuals may never see. Having individuals of different sizes and shapes also has advantages. Imagine a team with individuals with Gustine’s strength, Holly’s speed and ability to fit into small spaces, Wally’s technical prowess and combat abilities, Mallard’s brilliance. I’d take that group over a team of lizards. Heck, I’d take that group over a team of Flasks (though a team of Flasks would be easier on the eyes.)
Aconite over 10 years ago
This tour of the Reptile greatest hits, is really making me like them less and less.
pam Miner over 10 years ago
these comments seem to be overly duplicated. But maybe it’s just my various maladies have me discombobblated.
Ida No over 10 years ago
I tried looking for a monument in the U.S. showing the Indian side of the fighting. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find anything showing them losing (or winning, for that matter). In Little Big Horn, there’s just a bunch of square stones saying “Such-and-such warrior died here fighting for his way of life”.
X-Lydia over 10 years ago
“until we write our official history…”
Revisionists?! When were we ever revisionists??
Jenner Premium Member over 10 years ago
This is the genius of Neathery. He will introduce you to new peoples and new individuals. Some you will love, and some you will hate. And then he will take those you love and make you hate them. And he will take those you hate and make you love them.What a consummate story teller.
Cheapskate0 over 10 years ago
Thoughts on the second day of this revelation..The statue is over-the-top grisly. Who made it? The reptiles? Or the victims?.If the victims made it, and the reptiles have yet to write their “official history,” then likely the statue is slated for removal, but they haven’t gotten around to it just yet..Why is Piotr starting with the worst of his colony?.The more I think of it, and the way he seems to have dodged some of Sarah’s questions, I am coming to believe that Piotr wants to escape!.And I believe he is “feeling out” Sarah as to whether he can trust her with his secret!.I’m hoping for some kind of twist like this. Something to end this ever downward spiral..From others’ comments, I gather that the worst people on this planet are – the people (aka Topsiders). And the animals are becoming just as bad as the people (lizards, front and center, but Endtown has its issues, as well)..Piotr’s escape with Sarah would be infinite complications for Jim, probably Holly and Wally, as well. But it would provide a much needed lift to this story.
Darwinskeeper over 10 years ago
One thing I have to give America credit for is that we haven’t shied away from teaching and discussing many of the less than noble things we have done. Students learn about how we wiped off the land’s native population and tossed them onto reservations, about slavery and Jim Crow and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. There are some that argue that these things never happened, that they weren’t as bad as they were portrayed or that they were the right thing to do, but we still have these conversations.It is my understanding that in Japan, there is very little understanding about the atrocities that Japanese committed during World War II. That Japanese students are not taught about the “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. That many Japanese have no idea why so many people in Asia still hate them. I think it is too tempting to rewrite history so that the bad things are ignored. That’s why I’m proud that America still has these conversations, or at least some of them.
Space_cat over 10 years ago
I think we are just beginning to see the dark side of the lizards