Word: proteus
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...world's most famous performers, including legendary Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Today, small electric trains carry visitors on a 5-km ride to Postojna's heart; from there the journey is on foot, through what British sculptor Henry Moore described as "nature's most wonderful gallery." Watch out for Proteus anguinus?the "human fish," a colorless, eyeless newtlike creature with legs and gills that's unique to Postojna. A tour of the caves costs...
...Emerson says, "I am weary of these dogmatizers. I tire of these hacks of routine... why pretend life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?.. Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping? There is much to say on all sides...