#peter larkin

[the100boston]

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[theparisreview]

“In burlesque, any word more than three syllables is dirty. ‘Matriculate.’ ‘Scrutinize.’ Think of a young girl on a library ladder, putting the books away, and the ladder begins to teeter. ‘I saw her predicament.’” Peter Larkin talks about his pop-up burlesque books.

[proudlyhopelesslyoptimistic]

Things are never so; they seem to be, are apparently, they are indicative, it is suggested, maybe they are true. And always from a biologist expect lots of adjectives and adverbs, slightly, moderately, reasonably, average. Fishery biology is largely the art of saying 'probably' in 1000 ways. If a fishery biologist is known as an expert it is probably because he says nothing or because everything he says can be construed as a completely satisfactory prediction regardless of what happens.

UBC fisheries biologist Peter Larkin, 1960 to business people, quoted in Evenden, Fish versus Power, 231.