While dolphins have been taught to mimic the pattern and durations of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously tried such mimicry.
The name Homework, Bangalter explained, relates to "the fact that we made the record at home, very cheaply, very quickly, and spontaneously, trying to do cool stuff".
A nation of willful human hearts, each lurching this way and that and reaching out for whatever it spontaneously desires, trying desperately to find some comforting temporary shred of warmth in a mostly cold world, totally unconcerned about the external form in which that other, long-desired heart is embodied.
Rilke goes on, "It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition.
And they have spontaneously formed, tried hard to push back.
Some polite souls will try spontaneously to form one of these, by ostentatiously standing behind the person who appears to have arrived before them.
One significant surprise is that ferricytochrome-c molecules that get their knickers in a twist as they are folding can spontaneously unfold and try again.
If you don't spontaneously fall asleep, try this 'scientific' method: Pretend you are not the person struggling to sleep but a curious scientist, studying the side effects of 'counting breaths'.
"There wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation".
