NEVER LEAVING HOME: This happened once: a childhood friend dropped her pet hamster on a tiled floor when it was a week old. It survived but as it matured it embarked upon its journeys in progressively enlarging circles. It would set out ambling from a center where it had been placed, and would get further (though never far) with each new expedition. It would then list off, gimping to the left, and circumscribe a circle, as if tethered to home. This centripetal Odysseus spent its voyaging hours within sight of a very close shore. It died only yards from the scene of its pediatric accident.
This piece of mine was on 3quarksdaily earlier this week.
This piece of mine was on 3quarksdaily earlier this week.
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