Today is National Chopsticks Day, just to remind you. While Rhinos enjoy your enjoyment, We don’t find chopsticks useful; they require a dexterity which We lack. Also, they are not good for grass in bulk.
They may be good for knitting, but Rhinos can’t do that either.
Party on.
Lewis Carroll (b.1832) wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, definite Rhino favorites.
He celebrates an expanded view of Capacity and Perception, so Rhinos naturally see him as a kindred spirit.
Mr. Carroll also pretended to be Charles Dodgson sometimes, which was enterprising. Give that man some Cake, and plenty of it, is what Rhinos say!
Caligula was an Emperor of ancient Rome. He was hard to adore, though he thought he was a god. In time, everybody had had it with his pranks, so his guards killed him… in 41 AD.
Even back then, there was a Limit, you know?
Sir Francis Bacon (b.1561) was an important fellow in England. But Rhinos recall him best for his theorizing about the Scientific Method. He would pose a question, and then by serious investigation he’d prove himself a) right or b) wrong.
Rhinos think of Critical Thinking as entirely Natural. Still, it startled people. Everything they needed to know was already known, wasn’t it?
But some people had another idea: What if traditional answers were Incorrect? A Very Big Question, whenever it is posed. Right?
Today Your Inner Rhino lionizes, lauds, and panegyrizes the gift of Peter Roget (b.1779), namely his Thesaurus. His effort to synthesize the English language enriches anybody who chooses to explore the subtleties of language.
Rhinos exercise a similar delicate distinction with Scent, which is perhaps why We extol Mr. Roget’s work. His Inner Rhino shimmered. And shimmers on.
We used to have Ice Ages. Big, long and chilly, that was the Rhino Assessment.
If you want to make your own Glacier, you need special ingredients: First you need a Lot of Snow, plus cold temperatures to prevent melting the Snow away. Then add a lot of Time, and the Snow mounts up: Voila!, your very own Glacier.
Or maybe not. It turns out that Nature has to do projects this large. They are trickier than they look.
Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1643. He was a smart fellow. One day an apple fell on his head and he invented Gravity, mostly. He then came up with a formula to prove it.
If Sir Isaac was a Rhino, he would have eaten the apple and thought no more about it.
For more Gravity Talk, see Archive, Oct. 1, 2015.
M. Louis Braille, born 1809 in France, lost his sight in childhood. But by the age of 15, he had developed the system of reading named for him. It works by raised dots on a page.
Rhinos have eyesight, but it isn’t as acute a sense as scent or hearing. Or touch, which is what braille depends upon.
Mighty impressive contribution from M. Braille, with countless grateful beneficiaries.
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday (1892). He wrote The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, tales of fantastic adventures undertaken for the preservation of Decency.
Sagas of such experiences are common in Rhino Lore, but are too complex to detail in Your Inner Rhino. Just take it from Us, there are lots of similarities.
Clearly, Mr. Tolkien’s inner Rhino was working full time. What else would explain his achievements?
Jane Austen is celebrating her 241st birthday today. An insightful and witty author, detailing a society that Rhinos only vaguely understand. Life back then seems to have involved a range of social hurdles, establishing one’s eligibility for matrimony. Split an infinitive, and it was time to set sail for New Zealand.
Rhinos do not have mates for anything but mating, so the qualifying rounds are physical. Cut the mustard, deal with rivals, and We are ‘in business’. A less confusing and less time-consuming system.
Are Rhinos and YIR‘s Readers so very different? We may opine, but blush to publish an opinion…
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