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“Imagine that, like the White Cheeks, the geese, your survival absolutely depends on keeping close proximity to many many others… and the colder it gets, the more true this becomes. And then… a lethal virus arises among your people… and...

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^ “What do you do?” “Like you, I move my lips and emit various strings of bizarre noises. Frankly, the entire affair seems patently impossible. And embarrassing.” — infraheard

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Atoke of Platynereis dumerilii: It is yellowish-brown Female epitoke of Platynereis dumerilii: Its body is filled with yellow eggs. Male epitoke of Platynereis dumerilii: Its frontal part is filled with white sperm, while its rear is red due to blood vessels.

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Some Epigamies IX The eyes were dead because their body was dead. A ghost-house. What is it that departs when the heartbeat ceases and where does it go. I felt my fingers were not my own, and yet not those of another, either. One imagines an extremely round stone,...

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“… Just to be a bit contrary, however, I will sketch some answers. 1) What is life? A broad library of primordial and transentient relationships that are reflected in physical structure and respond to opportunity, threat, temporal existence… with...