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Aug. 17th, 2012 07:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynMy hardcover copy of Planet of the Apes arrived yesterday. I'm going to need to spend some time grabbing images from chimpanzee sanctuaries and the Jane Goodall Foundation web site. At least finding a PB will be easy.
Worth noting: as I glanced through it on the bus on the way to work this morning to re-familiarize myself with a few things (a proper reread will have to wait until this evening), I found a moment where Ulysse and Zira are discussing the origin of species. Zira notes that until about a hundred years ago it was firmly believed that all species were established more or less the same as their present forms from the beginning of time, but now science accepted that physical and mental development made species mutable and that the different organisms of Soror (the name Ulysse gave the apes' world) had evolved over the ages.
Ulysse asks if that means the apes evolved from men. Zira specifically says "Some of us thought so; but it is not that. Apes and men are two different branches that have a common source but have evolved in two different directions."
So, yeah, she's gonna be a bit of a spoilsport if anyone gives her certain lines from the movie. I plan on bringing her in from about halfway through the book, after she's accepted that Ulysse is a genuinely intelligent man and not some kind of charlatan's trick (she apparently confessed at some point that she thought this). Probably right after she brings him out for a walk in the park to meet her fiance' Cornelius, but before he's revealed to the ape population at large as intelligent and capable of wearing clothes.
Worth noting: as I glanced through it on the bus on the way to work this morning to re-familiarize myself with a few things (a proper reread will have to wait until this evening), I found a moment where Ulysse and Zira are discussing the origin of species. Zira notes that until about a hundred years ago it was firmly believed that all species were established more or less the same as their present forms from the beginning of time, but now science accepted that physical and mental development made species mutable and that the different organisms of Soror (the name Ulysse gave the apes' world) had evolved over the ages.
Ulysse asks if that means the apes evolved from men. Zira specifically says "Some of us thought so; but it is not that. Apes and men are two different branches that have a common source but have evolved in two different directions."
So, yeah, she's gonna be a bit of a spoilsport if anyone gives her certain lines from the movie. I plan on bringing her in from about halfway through the book, after she's accepted that Ulysse is a genuinely intelligent man and not some kind of charlatan's trick (she apparently confessed at some point that she thought this). Probably right after she brings him out for a walk in the park to meet her fiance' Cornelius, but before he's revealed to the ape population at large as intelligent and capable of wearing clothes.
