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One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

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When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

Absence, Alone, Cities, Dark, Sea
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When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Dies, Glasses, Like, Men, Secret, Window

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [. . . ] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [. . . ] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

Apart, Arms, Bird, Distance, Lonely, March

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

Achieved, Awkward, Plaintive, Poetry, Rain, Wail

I see that I must give what I most need.

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Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.

Memories, Rings, Storms, Tree, Trees, Weather
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