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...even dozen, of course, is convenient for reckoning points of the compass or months of the year. Fourteen is a bother. Hence the two additional constellations, Cetus (the whale) and Ophiuchus (the serpent slayer), have been ignored. Not by Schmidt, who assigns each constellation 26 days instead of 30, making room for Cetus between Aries and Taurus, and for Ophiuchus between Sagittarius and Scorpio. Let the horoscopes fall where they may; his way, Schmidt argues, gives "a better guide to analyzing character...
Cecil the seasick sea serpent swept to a Scituate shore Sunday and successfully stank up the surrounding sand...
Unfortunately, this maneuver exposes the fish to the possibility of being hit and killed by passing ships. The shark, after rotting or being eaten as it washes in, may then be mistaken for a sea serpent. This may have been the case with Cecil, the once celebrated sea monster whose remains at last word were being unceremoniously fed to the New England Aquarium's garbage disposal...
Pictures of it showed a long serpent-like body with a vaguely dog-like head. Observers at the scene said it appeared that parts of the body had been torn away. Pictures also showed part of what appeared to be two fins...
...because, while he pretends to exhaustive analysis, he deliberately ignores the one essential issue involved. The success or failure of a return to the Garden of Eden -even with Adam and Eve played by bright and well-favored Yale men and their dates-will depend not on the serpent state but upon human nature. Reich's simple assumption-borrowed unexamined from the Romantic movement-that man is inherently good until corrupted by society is simply a disastrous philosophical copout...