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Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration

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(idea) by etouffee (9.1 hr) (print)   ?   I like it! Mon May 05 2003 at 2:33:32

A quotation by Pierre-Simon Laplace*.

This may or may not be the inspiration for the graffiti seen during an early part of X-men 2. On a large plywood wall surrounding the church in Boston early in the film are scrawled these words:

Nature laughs last

It is both a commentary relevant to the whole evolution/mutation theme of the film and a foreshadowing of sorts. On either level it is a superior little plot device.

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* Quoted in I Gordon and S Sorkin, The Armchair Science Reader (New York 1959).


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