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2008/12/15 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> Where's garlic butter when you need it?
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> At 10:54 AM 12/15/2008, you wrote:
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>> <<Which side of those fenceposts are the snails choosing to estivate on?
>> Sun
>> side or shade side? --It's summer, after all.
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>> Do you worry about the few that sit out on the edge instead of hanging
>> with
>> the group?>>
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>> my interest is almost strictly aesthetic, I'd prefer not to
>> anthropomorphise
>> the sleepy dears beyond the necessities of metaphor.
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>> KS
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>> 2008/12/15 Susan Holahan <[log in to unmask]>
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>> > on 12/15/08 10:28 AM, kasper salonen at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> > > what would be more likely to spark a poem, for me, is the picture on
>> the
>> > > wikipedia page for "estivation" where we see white snails covering the
>> > poles
>> > > of a barbed wire fence:
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>> >
>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Kadina-snails-climb-fence-0
>> > > 716.jpg
>> > >
>> > > a lovely, and inspiring, image!
>> > >
>> > > KS
>> > >
>> > Which side of those fenceposts are the snails choosing to estivate on?
>> Sun
>> > side or shade side? --It's summer, after all.
>> >
>> > Do you worry about the few that sit out on the edge instead of hanging
>> with
>> > the group?
>> >
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