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Eddie’s blue whale poem

18 January 2017 by Simon Barnes 41 Comments

The blue whale! It’s a creature that has haunted Eddie’s life. He saw it first on The Life of Mammals, when his soul was touched by David Attenborough’s cry of joy as the impossible beast surfaced right by the tiny boat. This initial fascination was given strength, knowledge and direction by Big Blue Whale, a… [Read More]

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Sidelong look at a whoreson mad stoat

2 January 2017 by Simon Barnes 3 Comments

Peripheral vision is the way we look at stuff without knowing we are looking. The centre of my gaze was all on the computer screen, and all of its information was received in the fovea, the cone-heavy part of the eye that deals with all the stuff that’s dead in front. So far as I… [Read More]

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