Burning House by Ann Beattie

Author:Ann Beattie [Beattie, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307765710
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1982-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Upstairs, Jason was pretending to be a baby. Benton had gotten him into his pajamas and had taken the sheet from the bed and was holding Jason, sheet thrown around him like a huge poncho, facing the window. Jason was afraid, and he was trying to pretend that it was animals he was afraid of. He wanted to know if there were bears in the woods. “Not around here,” Benton said. Fox, then? Maybe—“but they don’t attack people. Maybe none around here, anyway.” Jason wanted to know where all the animals came from.

“You know where they came from. You know about evolution.”

“I don’t know,” Jason said. “Tell me.”

“Tell you the whole history of evolution? You think I went to school yesterday?”

“Tell me something,” Jason said.

Benton told him this fact of evolution: that one day dinosaurs shook off their scales and sucked in their breath until they became much smaller. This caused the dinosaurs’ brains to pop through their skulls. The brains were called antlers, and the dinosaurs deer. That was why deer had such sad eyes, Benton told Jason—because they were once something else.

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