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Article: Does the rain have a father?(Science)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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"MY FATHER was a zoologist and a writer of books on natural history," states Edmund Gosse in the first chapter of the book--published exactly a hundred years ago--that tells the story of his relationship with his father. That hardly says the half of it: his father was the lighthouse keeper who went out in a gale of immanence to try to rescue his religion, though it wasn't the storm clouds which threatened his flail skiff so much as the great heave of history beneath it. While rowing frantically into the gale he couldn't help but notice a whorled pedunculate barnacle (Cirripides) stuck to the underside of the boat. It may even have been the barnacle which had caused the ...
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