Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays (started on Should Be Reading) asks you to:

Grab your current read (or a book on your shelf that you've read or been wanting to read). Let the book fall open to a random page. Share two (or a few) teaser sentences from that page. Don't forget to share the title and author of the book in case someone is teased into reading. Please avoid spoilers!

I've posted my teaser below. Post yours in the comment section if you'd like to share as well!

This one is from a book Brad recently bought. It's structure is loosely based on The Canterbury Tales.

A picture of an 'Ourang Outang' by the Dutch doctor Bontius in 1658 is, in T.H. Huxley's words, 'nothing but a very hairy woman of rather comely aspect and with proportions and feet wholly human'. Hairy she is except, oddly, in one of the few places where a real woman is: her pubic region is conspicuously naked.

from p.109 of The Ancestor's Tale: A pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution (The Gorilla's Tale) by Richard Dawkins
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