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It looks really good, Goofy. I'm about to go to bed, but will definitely read it. Thanks!
 
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Hopefully, the next one will be Spanish, according to the Donald.ylly,
 
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A good corrective: "Smilla's Sense of Snow"(novel 1992, Hoeg). As I recall there was no reference at all to a dizzying vocabulary for snow, just a highly-honed ability to read into marks & degree of melting/freezing at the edge of marks, for tracking purposes.
 
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That reminds me of the day I went in a book store and found a bound book but all the pages were blank. I asked the clerk about it and he told me it was thirty-nine dollars. I couldn't believe the price for a book with nothing in it. "It's actually a highly technical Eskimo treatise on snow. Those white pages are illustrations."
 
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In the not too distant future there will be an Eskimo legend beginning with, "Back when we had something called snow..."
 
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As the polar bear said her youngster, Look cold. Here comes Natiopnal Geo photographrr"
 
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