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September 5, 2006

J. and I took some of our damnable books to Moe's yesterday, got three figures in trade credit and promptly spent most of it. I got an edition of Aeschylus with this helpful card pasted to the inside cover:

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.