Ann Leckie ([info]ann_leckie) wrote,
@ 2008-03-23 15:49:00
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Easter Dinner
Ham, au gratin potatoes, green beans. Here at home--we've sworn off the crazy brother in law for good.

So, eating, discussing dinosaur brains, like you do at Easter dinner, Paidhi Boy observes that, "Dinosaurs, one of their brain things was art."

Of course we asked for clarification. The explanation involves some diagram of a brain he saw that had different sections labeled "Math" or "Science" and so on, as though there were such easily identified segments of the brain.

So, we've explained that brains don't actually work like that, but I'm still a bit boggled by the whole idea of the art center of dinosaurs' brains. I guess they didn't do rock carving, and all that literature and painting was lost in the meteor strike.



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[info]birdhousefrog
2008-03-23 09:15 pm UTC (link)
They were clearly hampered by not having opposable thumbs. However, I believe their performance art was quite highly evolved. They tended to die in artistic poses to be discovered at some future date. Oh and the spit paintings would have survived but for the meteor strike, yes. Plant juices, you know.

Oz

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[info]ann_leckie
2008-03-24 04:10 pm UTC (link)
yes, the plant juices won't have held up well over sixty five million years, meteor or no meteor, will they?

The performance art is a good point--very ephemeral, that, except for that final tableau. I wonder, too, about music. Did they have some form of notation? Perhaps those piles of gizzard stones aren't random in placement...

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[info]birdhousefrog
2008-03-24 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Ah, yes, the gizzard stones. Swallowed with respect to size and shape and content, they were knocked together inside the dinosaur in primitive tonalities to make dino music, a form of "dinosaur song" as it were. Some "singers" being more advanced than others, there's a rumor that their plant juice spit involved some form of primitive musical notation. But alas, we have only the piles to go by.

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[info]countesslovlace
2008-03-23 09:50 pm UTC (link)
Obviously you need to write another story within your Post-Apocalyptic Dinosaurs on Mars universe involving dinosaur art.

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[info]chomiji
2008-03-24 03:47 pm UTC (link)

>> I guess they didn't do rock carving, and all that literature and painting was lost in the meteor strike.<<

Ah ha ha ha! Thanks for giving me a Monday morning laugh!!

Poor dinosaurs - no respect!

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