The Turkish Angoras of Korea are brighter than ever

This is to scotch rumours of my electrocution by an ultra violet lamp, which have at the very least been advanced, if not brought forward. I have to acknowledge that I shall be dead eventually, like most, if not all of you, but let's dwell here on the present rather than speculate on the probability of the inevitable. I admit though I can surmise how the UV lamp story about me began to flash round the newsrooms of the world. Indeed, I can almost glimpse the beckoning glamour of celebrity, a temptation that sometimes it's difficult for even me to resist.
The thing is, this UV business is becoming popular. In Gyeongsang National University in South Korea, at which unlike at least several of you I've never studied, scientists have introduced a fluorescent protein gene to the DNA of three cloned Turkish Angoras, which are a breed of cat with extremely fine fur, probably originating in sixteenth century France - the breed that is, not the fur, though if you leave them out in a tropical storm it can become rather matted, the fur that is, not the storm.
Anyway. They put these cats under the UV lamp and they change colour. And guess what, the USA were there first. Kids can have their guinea pigs, hamsters and jerbils glowing like isotopes. Those scientists must have been bored because next they took a butterfly, would you believe it, and added some DNA from a jellyfish to it to genetically modify its whatever. Then they shone the UV lamp up its posterior and Bingo! the internals of the butterfly lit up in the dark. This sounds like the Icarus syndrome to me, because I can imagine that when the butterflies are released and they fly out into the hot summer sun, their jellied wings will soften and they'll flop to the ground in little molten heaps. So much for genetic manipulation. Don't anybody come near me with a jellyfish. I'll stick to my torch battery.