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At 16:15 GMT on Wednesday 28th April I'll be talking to @19thCLincoln about 'Literature and Borderline Geoscience: The Case of Paranormal Palaeontology in the Late Nineteenth Century'. Sign up for the free event at https://t.co/XdaAW1iGsm
'My embryo has never been torpid—nothing could overlay it.
For it the nebula cohered to an orb,
The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.' Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"