Jing Jang and Ranga Tang
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If you're the type of person who pronounces nuclear as nukeyeller or ginseng as jingjang or orangutan as rangatang, then you're probaly a lot like Gambar who would have been one of those persons if he had any idea of the concepts of nuclear, ginseng or orangutan.
You're also a lot like Gambar if hundreds of years from now, they name an orangutan after you in a zoo in a declining city.
You're also a lot like Gambar and an orangutan if you're immature. If you're male and immature then the similarity between you and Gambar and an orangutan intensifies.
A fully adult orangutan male is flanged. When fully flanged, the orangutan has the large cheek flaps and throat sac which enables him to emit a deep booming sound which surpasses a lions roar in volume and intensity.
Male orangutans are not fully flanged until about thirty five years or older. No other animal takes that long to reach full maturity, with the exception of the human male, who in most cases is only fully mature just before death, and even not then in all cases.
Gambar, in our story, was a typical male which means exasperatingly immature. Yet, in spite of his immaturity or perhaps because of it, Gambar was closer to death than he suspected from the moment he locked eyeballs with Glork.
Then, of course, all of us are closer to death than we think.
That's why God invented Doctors.
And witch doctors
And politicians
And security alerts
And executioners
And staring contests.
And that's why the most common last words we speak, when maturity and mortality are knocking down the door are these two words.
"oh !shit"
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I guess you're right,
I guess you're right, maturity is alway tomorrow or the day after. One day I hope to reach maturity.
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