West Antarctic Ice

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    ... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.
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    “A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
    And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth”—
    Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
    That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow!
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