Word: burrows
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...instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep or fly winningly through his memories...
...entry, he said of his writing that "my doubts stand in a circle around every word." He might have added-around every deed. Kafka was a man impaled on the spears of scruple: he could not be satisfied with the approximations of truth most men accept, but had to burrow into them and try to redefine them...
...biology labs. Harvey Harvard II had come into the world. But all was not destined for happiness. This little ball of fur never got to know his proud father, for the next day, Sir Harvey was committed to the earth in which he had never been able to burrow...
Nutrias behave rather like muskrats. A pair sets up house by digging a burrow into a stream bank, or building a house of reeds. The female starts breeding at about one year old and produces two or three litters a year. Because the young ones generally live with their parents for some time, the original home soon becomes a teeming colony full of descendants and in-laws...
...find freedom as long as he is moored to society by responsibilities and to fellow men by emotions? Or is it accessible only when he rips himself away from all human entanglements to burrow in the dark and secret catacombs of consciousness...