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So Global Oracle.

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I want to check.

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Can you hear me OK?

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Am I doing all right.

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Let's get this--
this is about right.

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"Book I. Bees arise in stellar,
solar, and lunar myths.

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Bees are messengers.

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Bees are oracular for
telling the weather.

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Bees are atoms of delight,
analog to the stars.

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Bees discourse the
language of immensities.

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Bees will wing us, guided
by the daughters of the Sun,

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along trajectories only
open to the thinking man.

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Moon-Artemis, with her
retinue of bee-eunuch drones

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and bee-nymphs.

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Zeus essEnos, the great
bee-king on Mount Olympus,

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fed as a child by
cave-dwelling bees.

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To the Greeks, honey was astron.

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To the Romans, honey was
saliva siderum star-fallen.

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Honey falls from the
skies as star spittle

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and dews the leaves of dawn."