How can you hope, or presume, to crank up our dread of the inhuman when, from the start, you refuse to play by regular human rules?
In no way is a pitcher ever as "perfect" as perfect can be, but within the very human rules of baseball, it qualifies.
This was the premise of the first season of "New Girl," which made its debut on Fox in 2011, except for one thing: in that situation the new person was, in essence, a zebra, beholden to no human rules.
As he put it: "This is not about human rules anymore.
Things start off great, but as the community gets larger basic human rules for interaction break down and, basically, everything goes to hell.
No longer a human, she is now unbound by human rules.
But he is also outspoken, uninhibited and unencumbered by normal human rules of etiquette and conversation.
"But finally I realized that these are chimpanzees, and that they live in line with their own rules, not with human rules," Yamamoto said.
Many people go to retreat centers in beautiful places, where carefully placed cabins help enforce the see-no-human rule.
