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Because the park is on the flight path, the city corrals and euthanizes geese. Which mate for life, I confirmed on Wikipedia. The glow of the screen seemed to come off on my hand.
Ben Lerner • 10:04
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I said to Massot that I thought it was a shame the sangliers were hunted quite so relentlessly by so many hunters. “But they taste delicious,” he said. “Specially the young ones, the marcassins. And besides, it’s natural. The English are too sentimental about animals, except those men who chase foxes, and they are mad.”
Peter Mayle • A Year in Provence (Vintage Departures)
Even during the winter doldrums, the joys of hibernation will often be interrupted for exercise in the form of hunting. Now that game has become scarce in the Luberon, this is usually nothing more than a man taking his gun for a walk. But what a walk it is—steep and hard, a challenge for the legs, a flood of clean air for the lungs, a workout for
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Adam named all the mammals and the birds—so forging a connection with them that went to the root of what both they and he were. His very first words were the names. We are shaped by the things we say and the labels we give. So Adam was shaped by his interactions with the animals. That interaction, and that shaping, are simple historical facts.
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