Andrew - Yes, just finished watching the news about extracting DNA from a
female thylacine pup pickled in alcohol for 136 years. Cloning of this
extinct Oz mammal is imminent, the scientists say; possibly within the next
decade!
As for cloning "alcohol pickled" poets, well, there's a challenge! Francois
Villon & Kit Marlowe spring immediately to mind. Then again, I would like to
be with Rimbaud & Verlaine in London, circa whenever (top of head stuff,
this - so can't remember exact dates). It's the "renegade" poets who attract
me...just imagine being able to converse with William Blake, Vladimir
Mayakovsky?
Ach, there are so many poets from the past that I would like to converse
with: Chaucer, Donne, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats...man! the list is
endless! And I've just touched on English poets here. Edna St Vincent Millay
would be interesting (out of youthful - on my part - curiousity), and what
about Homer! Gotta stop...
Cheers,
Viv
Andrew Burke wrote:
> Speaking of the Tassie Tiger (Thylazine, sort of), did you hear they are
> actually using a DNA sample from a pup that has been held in solution for
> 100 years to try to clone a T/Tiger?! Could we do it with poets? Some
> should still have parts of them preserved - pickled in alcohol. Who would
> you clone, if you had your druthers?
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