Whilst our generous hosts at Dumont D'Urville Station provided us with
wonderful hospitality, friendship and delicious lunch and dinner, I
couldn't but help observing the following scene unfolding outside
the windows of the main cafeteria hut: a strange plinth-like object,
surrounded by penguins on a rocky prominence. Immediately struck by
the startling resemblance between this and the opening scenes of
Stanley Kubrick's 1969 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey," one is
drawn to the conclusion that this obviously unnatural object,
disguised as a plinth of some sort, is in fact an Alien Sentinel,
instructing and transforming the nearby inhabitants by means of
obscure cosmic symmetries that we mere humans can barely comprehend -
and leading to the development of a race of hyperintelligent penguins
bent upon world domination. Our French amis blithely believe this to
be a normal penguin colony, misled by the cunning alien intelligences
at work here. We must warn them BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
- Peter Morse
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