“Civilizing children was pretty much all about inducing cognitive dissonance. His daughters’ balancing of their desire both to cuddle and to devour mammals was their ticket for entry to the human pageant.”
“Family life, a cataclysm of solitudes.”
“By the logic of his childhood fantasy the blade would free the tortoises and the sharks and the porpoises from their tanks, to pour out and die gasping in sunlight on the concrete walkways.”
“The killer whales, with their Emmett Kelly eyes, were God’s glorious lethal clowns.”
“See food, eat food.
Sea World, Eat World.”