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...great final sentence in your report about the rattlesnakes of Pinole brings to mind a remark of John Muir's in his Sierra book about the poison ivy: "Like most other things not apparently useful to man, it has few friends, and the blind question, 'Why was it made?' goes on and on with never a guess that first of all it might have been made for itself...
...either luck or a testimony to nervous caution that there have been no deaths. The snakes are Northern Pacific rattlers, whose venom carries a hemolytic agent that destroys the red blood cells. Roughly one foot long at birth (they grow up to five feet), the snakes bear enough poison from the time they leave the nest to kill a full-grown...
...packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
Political advisers are warning the President that a continuation of the current slump could be poison for Republicans in the fall congressional elections. If the economy is not "back in balance" by Election Day, says White House Political Operative Murray Chotiner, "there is no question that Republican candidates for office can be hurt." A Republican National Committee official who has traveled throughout the nation recently brought back this report: "Millions of older people who own stocks are scared to death. Lots of them have depended on stock values to take care of them in their retirement. Now the cash value...
...into a million prisons, or urge his genius to touch just beyond its comfort. The condition of language at present may be compared, more or less unemotionally, to a stupefied, labyrinthine torture-house, which is nothing but unconnecting hallways, with only one way forward, the floor creeping with pursuant poison to the rear. Keep the words pure and the laws will be just, said Ezra Pound. It's an admonition, not a solution, The only way is poetry, for poets have less rubbish in their heads than other men. They have the power of symbol. Great poets possess the power...