Starting around the 1930s, cool began appearing in American English as an extremely casual expression to mean something like ‘intensely good.’ William James Henry was born in 1876. So he does not know, at all, what being 'cool' has to do with being a skeleton. Was that some kind of reference to his total lack of body heat? A quizzical look crosses Will Henry's face.
"Common designation means it's what the locals would call you, instead of what the scientists named you," he says, unable to entirely follow what was said to him.
Natural skeletons? Don't they all have natural endoskeletons and its this one without any skin that's aberrant? Well, apparently not to himself.
"Were you always a skeleton? Or did something have to die first." A little blunt, a little dark, but he's trying to understand something that is-- Surreal. Yes, a little silly and dreamlike imagining a world where skeletons walk around without skin as an everyday occurrence.
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"Common designation means it's what the locals would call you, instead of what the scientists named you," he says, unable to entirely follow what was said to him.
Natural skeletons? Don't they all have natural endoskeletons and its this one without any skin that's aberrant? Well, apparently not to himself.
"Were you always a skeleton? Or did something have to die first." A little blunt, a little dark, but he's trying to understand something that is-- Surreal. Yes, a little silly and dreamlike imagining a world where skeletons walk around without skin as an everyday occurrence.