Consider the Pangolin, and Other Animals
The LRB Podcast
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The Importance of Natural History
Shakespeare used the idea of a half-formed bad idea. So it would have looked like a blob arrived and a mother's mouth brought it into being. John Dunne wrote this bit that says it's in one of his love poems. He says, loves a bear well born. If we are liquor love and force it new strange shapes to take, we err and offer lump amongst a make.
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