“So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?” I asked.
He blinked at me as if I were stupid.
“Well what do you think you do?” he said. “You die of course. That’s what deadly means.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]
(Source)
Talking to a herpetologist before traveling to Komodo, Indonesia.
The source BBC Radio documentary (1989-11-01) can no longer be played at the BBC site. Adams reading the 1992 audiobook can be heard here.
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Wine has drowned more than the sea.
Publilius Syrus (d. 42 BC) Assyrian slave, writer, philosopher [less correctly Publius Syrus]
Sententiae [Moral Sayings]
Alt. trans.: "Wine drowns more than the sea." See also Fuller (1723).
Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 5744 (1732)
(Source)
See Publilius Syrus.
