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Politics : Evolution

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To: N. Dixon who wrote (45506)1/25/2014 4:35:14 AM
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Lovely myth. A muskrat can dive and stay submerged for 20 minutes--plenty of time to retrieve dirt from the ocean floor. And patient turtle has always been a friend...

(and, of course, because the Muskrat will usually surface in an entirely different spot--ancient people would have been quite comfortable giving him as much time as he needed!). Mythology is a rare and wonderful sort of poetry...
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