04-30-2014, 07:35 AM
Now HANG on a minute....I keep skimming past these pictures without properly registering a certain matter....Why is there an owl in this picture?
And is it stuffed? And why? And are those mineral samples or owl pellets, lovingly arrayed before him?
I know none of this is crucial or indeed even vaguely important to the plot, but it's a bloody odd tableau nonetheless..
![[Image: TBBT-7x22-10.jpg]](http://www.seat42f.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TBBT-7x22-10.jpg)
It reminds me of Charles Waterton, a rather mad naturalist, who enjoyed taxiderming various inappropriate animals together and then leaving them around his house to frighten his friends. Here is a portrait of him. If I remember, the inscription with it was along the lines of "Only Waterton, with his unerring sense of the absurd, would have chosen to share his portrait with the dour, decapitated head of a tabby cat."
![[Image: paul-stewart-1824-charles-waterton-natur...rtrait.jpg]](http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/72/7273/UNKT100Z/posters/paul-stewart-1824-charles-waterton-naturalist-portrait.jpg)
And is it stuffed? And why? And are those mineral samples or owl pellets, lovingly arrayed before him?
I know none of this is crucial or indeed even vaguely important to the plot, but it's a bloody odd tableau nonetheless..
It reminds me of Charles Waterton, a rather mad naturalist, who enjoyed taxiderming various inappropriate animals together and then leaving them around his house to frighten his friends. Here is a portrait of him. If I remember, the inscription with it was along the lines of "Only Waterton, with his unerring sense of the absurd, would have chosen to share his portrait with the dour, decapitated head of a tabby cat."
"WHERE THE HELL'S MY PARACHUTE?"