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Electra.

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I think I'm going
to pass on that.

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All right.

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OK.

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Electra.

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And this is what Dr. Samuel
Johnson in his dictionary

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has to say about the amber.

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Amber, which having
the quality when

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warmed by friction
of attracting bodies

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gave to one species
of attraction

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the name of electricity
and to the body that so

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attract the epithet electric.

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And the poem's
really about amber.

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These are the preserved tears
that plenty knew so well.

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In the cold sun of
amber, they stare out

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of their jewel
cask unresolved

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by the galactic world.

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We suspect that Antonio
Stradivari made varnish

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with their dust to seal the
precious umber of his wood.

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They lay upon the living breath
of heaven, said the chef.

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The indwelling,
ever-present evil eye

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faltered in the flicker
of this wine congealed

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in the hot primeval
thunderhead, wept

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from those boughs and roots
that sheltered the naked animal,

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he who ran upright and hid
in the ancient crotches

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of the mother of air,
the mother of Earth,

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the mother of rain, the tree.

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