"Why should Shalimar
attract kraits. Why should a coral snake need two glands of neurotoxic
poison to survive while a king snake, so similarly marked, needs
none. Where is the Darwinian logic there. You might ask that. I never
would, not anymore. I recall an incident reported not long ago in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner:
two honeymooners, natives of Detroit, found dead in their Scout camper
near Boca Raton, a coral snake still coiled in the thermal blanket. Why?
Unless you are prepared to take the long view, there is no satisfactory
'answer' to such questions."
Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays
Joan Didion, Play it as it Lays
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