Dinosaur Cookies
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What does it mean that the dinosaurs, literally the "terrible lizards," have infiltrated our culture so deeply that children are encouraged to consume them in effigy? The first dinosaurs, as imagined in the mid-1800s from their gigantic bones, were creatures out of nightmares. The movie "Jurassic Park" preserves some of that Victorian dread. A hundred years ago you could write best-sellers that featured living dinosaurs, hidden deep in some African pocket valley ready to terrorize the explorer.
Today we know dinosaurs are irretrievably dead. Today they're almost quaint. Today they are engrained in our culture as thoroughly as our favorite cartoon characters. These are good cookies, by the way.
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