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Whales
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Marble would not be good enough to lay this corpse upon; for the sight – discard the blemishes – is wonder. This is the sordid remnant, yet the eye may even now replace what has been lost. Where went that spirit, which played in the magnificence – which made this mountain leap and sport, quickened the eye, retracted that balloon of a tongue, lifted that fallen jaw? This was a lump which solved some wild equation of the elements. This monstrous form and painted shapeliness has burned its way thro
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Her thoughts were broken by a resonant call of whale song, echoing and half made of phantom beauty. The night atmosphere enlivened and grew in complexity as the song invoked the dance of the Earth Spirit across the water and the land.
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― Lahana
― Lahana
