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The Whippet #171: A delicate, narrow snout and a pleasant disposition
You know all those videos of Floridians, like, leaf-blowering an alligator to get it to leave a dollar-store carpark or whatever?
The Whippet #170: The best thing I know about bones
It's not a single fact, it's completely changed how I conceptualise bones. I had thought of them as more or less inert scaffolding, not living organs
The Whippet #169: A feeling in search of a cause
We dignify big emotions and dismiss smaller ones, but maybe what we talk about in art/philosophy and what we're allowed to express in daily life are not the same?
The Whippet #168: An indulgent loss of focus
"During the rainy season, the valleys among the dunes fill with freshwater lagoons, prevented from draining due to the impermeable rock beneath."
The Whippet #167: Just trucking right along
World turtle! Reliability v. accuracy. Treat horseshoe. Neurological flexibility. Lashtabs. Task-saturation!
The Whippet #166: What part of rubeville are you from?
"There is something flamboyant about these boots which does not suit the average Englishwoman or go well with our sober English streets."
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