The Last Word On Nothing

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Falling

From “On Being the Right Size,” by J.B.S. Haldane:  “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away.  A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.” Recently, a couple of my friends have fallen.  One, a woman, [...]

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