Yes, of course, the writer is a pampered and lucky creature and we mustn't forget that, but the occupation does carry physical perils beyond the usual self-inflicted over-indulgences.
These days when I reread the novel I want to urge Dorothea to stay exactly as she is at the start of the novel, a supremely lucky creature with the resources to do exactly as she pleases (in her case, designing model cottages).
What has worked on those lucky creatures seems to work, too, on humans.
We are very lucky creatures, because we humans are absolutely made of love and we are in possession of an abundant supply of love.
Even for the lucky few creatures that are preserved in the fossil record, soft tissues such as skin and feathers typically disappear over time.
So for the sake of us all – humans, dogs, any and all of God's creatures lucky or unlucky enough to set foot on the streets of the city – I beseech the Board of Health, or another department of the municipal government (it doesn't matter which one), please, draft some legislation banning this scourge of civilized urban living.
Our children who have died become "angels," gentle and revered creatures lucky enough to fly above us and be with God, or "warriors" waging war against the enemy inside their body.
After all, any man who can make millions off of a lucky pink blob-creature, and spawn a Number One hit single with the not terribly catchy hook: "Although he's unconventional in hue / his philosophy of life will steer him through" is operating on a different astral plane to the rest of us.
Two still have openings: "Science of Disney Imagineering," at 10 a.m. and 12 30 and 3 p.m. at the Skirball Center, will deal with subjects like the dynamics of roller coasters and the creation of creatures like Lucky; and "Science of Sports," at noon and 3 p.m. at the Coles Sports and Recreation Center, will show how physics and physiology combine to produce athletic success.
Combining a red shirt with a dragon badge may be doubly lucky in Asian eyes, the creature being seen in Chinese culture as a symbol of good fortune and intense power.
Yet whenever a set of parts turned out to be useful the creatures that were lucky enough to have them "survived, being organised spontaneously in a fitting way, whereas those which grew otherwise perished".
