article_snippet.sent: You just can’t come to terms with the fact that you and him are sharing the same air, the same continent, the same century.
article_snippet.sent: You feel as if you’ve slipped back into the Jurassic era and were looking at some great horned dinosaur, for some great horned dinosaur couldn’t possibly be part of the 21st century.
article_snippet.sent: It’s as if the creatures of the past had suddenly invaded the present, as if the Lost World of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had been found again.
article_snippet.sent: as modern as a child born yesterday: part of our present, not part of our past.
article_snippet.sent: There him was, 20 yards away, looking at him looking at him.
article_snippet.sent: But after a while him relaxed and got on with him life, snacking on bushes.
article_snippet.sent: Big solid, fast and armed with that wonderful great bodger on him bonce, him’s a modern creature fully equipped for the modern world, if only we’d let him get on with it.