Slothrop: For obvious reasons, the peacock is Slothrop's doppelganger in the animal kingdom, except you've got to transpose "pea" into "pumpkin." Slothrop is indeed a pumpkincock. And this here book makes the claim that music, evolutionarily speaking, is like the peacock's feathers, showing the male to be a martini-drinking-you-want-pearls-I-can-get-you-pearls-baby type of man, for which the ladies all swoon. So Slothrop is empirically vindicated for having spent thousands of hours learning the tuba and kazoo. One sentence, however, does ruffle his flamboyant feathers a bit: "Some male songbirds will sing their courtship song until they drop dead from exhaustion."
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