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Big Ideas Among Earthlings.

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A guy, Edward
Topsell, said: it is

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as-- it is as necessary or
more necessary for most men

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to know how to capture mice
than how to capture elephants.

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Big Ideas Among Earthlings.

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You know how they named quirks
of the nuclear particle that--

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they have these sort
of adjectives for them

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that have to do with
strangeness and charm and stuff.

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That will crop up
somewhere, I guess.

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Big Ideas Among Earthlings.

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Who'd want to be the
biggest one, the president

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or mastermind, the lord of
stars or a model of the kind?

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Who'd want the
drove of sycophants,

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the plague of elitists and
angels echoing her every word?

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A little loom or
night soil is a lot.

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The miles unfurl
inside a single iris,

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small hours in hot purple,
wet gotten from eavesdropping.

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We craved our own
lost halves ever

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since language and land
were sundered into kind.

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And Africa misses South America,
and clouds, their coast.

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And to this day, I love
the fucker who deserted me.

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But who can claim to hold
a soul, even her own?

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Americans think big is forceful,
but the strongest force

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belongs to the electrons
bound at 40,000 miles per hour

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about their far off nuclei.

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From them, we get our
sense that matter is solid.

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You can look about, above,
for lords and kings,

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but given what we know
of strangeness, given

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what we know of
charm, perhaps the God

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is small, not big, who
keeps us from harm.

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