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Darwin
They tucked in drinks and hashed it out,
That monkey business, see? That Darwin stuff, what an affront To human dignity! They drank a bunch of tankards down, They stumbled out the doors, They grunted and scratched and made it home Scrabbling on all fours. 19 April 2012
A typical Wilhelm Busch observation—I chose this one because it was the first one I liked that I didn’t immediately find another translation of.
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