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We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.
[Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) "The Illusion of Immortality"]
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Category: Organisms
Posted on: July 21, 2006 10:04 AM, by PZ Myers
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the
breastsiphon of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.Walt Whitman
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Posted by: Stephanie | July 21, 2006 11:26 AM
Awwww. That's so sweet.
Posted by: Michael Bains | July 21, 2006 2:04 PM
That reminds me. I've still not got a quarter way through Leaves of Grass.
Gotta take care o' that sometime.
Posted by: The Ridger | July 21, 2006 3:06 PM
Ditto. Awwww.
Posted by: rrt | July 21, 2006 7:18 PM
It still fascinates me to see how such a sophisticated, intelligent, beautiful creature reproduces in a way so similar to the rest of its phylum. So different, and yet so much the same.
Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2006 4:54 PM
PZ,
Please tell me this is a joke. Isn't that mom and tens of thousands of her "babes"?