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Monday, July 21, 2014

ZOO NUGGET!!

Zoo Animals and Their Discontents from the New York Times
"Sometimes he watches an animal for hours, hardly moving. That’s because what to an average zoo visitor looks like frolicking or restlessness or even boredom looks to Virga like a lot more — looks, in fact, like a veritable Russian novel of truculence, joy, sociability, horniness, ire, protectiveness, deference, melancholy and even humor."

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