... makes me sound weird if I say yes, don't it. [He pulled on his gloves and picked up the scissors, carefully eyeballing where he should make the first incision as he continued to speak.] I like knowin' how things work, 'specially livin' ones. No better way than seein' it firsthand.

[Once he had a line down the center of the frog's belly pictured in his head, he started his first incision with clinically detached efficiency, hands perfectly steady.]