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...cried the rat. 'You don't even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki in "hungry country," which is the desert -- words, as the storyteller says, "from the far side of the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Imagine: a Cow in a Gown! | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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