Red Queen Hypothesis

Famous quotes containing the words red, queen and/or hypothesis:

    “Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “The Queen had one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. “Off with his head!” she said without even looking around.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved.... This hypothesis ... would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)