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But maybe its no mistake. Maybe the
encyclopedia salesmen remove Plate L
before they deliver the set, the
bonus World Atlas and map of the stars.
Perhaps they keep an Exacto-knife
especially for the purpose, apply
exactly the right pressure so as to
leave the other leaves intact; perhaps
they believe knowing the name and which
way the blood flows can only make it worse.
Today, astronomers are in search of a new
planet X, a Lowell Body they suspect
beyond Pluto. They believe that it orbits
retrograde, its arrows pointing in the
opposite direction to that of the other
planets. They have charted fluctuations
in the diametrical size of the gaseous
clouds of Pluto's tiny moon Charon that
can be accounted for no other way.
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