The bigger question is: Can such massacres be prevented, even now that the camcorder acts as the world's surrogate eyes and ears?
Everything was, instead, designed and executed through photographs, research documents, videos, maps, plans, Skype conferences and scores of assistants, many of whom traveled from Beijing to San Francisco as Ai's surrogate eyes and ears.
In future studies, we will upgrade our controller to automatically adjust the flow rate and temperature of cold air according to the tympanic (ear drum) temperature measured by a near-infrared sensor in the ear canal as surrogate of the brain temperature.
For each embryo transfer, an elaborate record was made, including date time, ear number for surrogate sow, ovulation or not, the number of transferred embryos and so on.
Even Leona, Nell's sister-in-law, is given ample air time, and serves as an unbiased observer, an ever-present pair of eyes and ears, a heart, a surrogate, a Greek Chorus of commentary on the unfolding drama.
None of the gibing is terribly eye-opening or funny (even to the sympathetic ear), but when Mr. Giuliani's surrogate is sent over the gunwale, you guffaw with shock and think, Gee, does the mayor know about this?
FOX-EAR DEALIE This was a parting gift from our surrogate Eskimo mom, Edna, that was both very very sweet and very very fluffy.
The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only three produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor).
The ear leads no longer to the heart but is made the surrogate of the eye.
Joining their cause, Victor becomes the first of two sympathetic adults in the book: ideal surrogate parents who don't bug or belittle you and never ask you to wash behind your ears.
