“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.” ThinkingLittlesMadeAbleRememberProcessDealsFashionSourceLoversAgingSilentComplexesLegsTailsNegotiationBargainsFrogsMermaidRemember SomethingTadpoles Author:Rae Armantrout
“Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.” MenTwoWholeEarthWalksDealsBehaviorNormalMethodPatternsLegsBiologyExplainingMammalsHistory Of Life Author:Elaine Morgan
“Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.” EndsOrderDealsSolutionsLegsMythologyMathematician Author:Daniel Tammet
“I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.” HelpingGivenDealsMedicineSatisfactionLegsHelping Others Author:Fred Hollows