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In the MeFi thread remembering poet Stanley Kunitz, Metafilter's linguistics czar languagehat posted an excerpt from this haunting Kunitz poem "The Testing Tree." Go read it now.
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In the MeFi thread remembering poet Stanley Kunitz, Metafilter's linguistics czar languagehat posted an excerpt from this haunting Kunitz poem "The Testing Tree." Go read it now.
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i am entranced by the image of an albino walrus (with gentle eyes) huffing
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May 16, 2006 03:06 AM
Me too -- especially since my favorite thing at the aquarium on Coney Island is to go down to the windows that look into the walrus tank. They're very sociable, and often one or more will come and swim over to interact with people watching. One of them likes to press his mouth against the glass and blow bubbles at you.
(Of course, maybe this is a gesture of aggression, and the walrus is trying to get all these peeping toms to move the hell on. What do I know?)
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May 16, 2006 09:39 AM