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AEROPLANE  Click here for original version  It is always winter up there.    ————  As the aeroplane moved over the frozen white flatland of the clouds Geryon left  his life behind like a weak season.  Once he’d seen a dog having a rabies attack. Springing about like a mechanical toy  and falling over on its back  in jerky ways as if worked by wires. When the owner stepped up and put a gun  to the dog’s temple Geryon walked away.  Now leaning forward to peer out the little oblong window where icy cloudlight  drilled his eyes  he wished he had stayed to see it go free.  Geryon was hungry.  Opening his Fodor’s Guide he began to read “Things to Know About Argentina.”  “The strongest harpoons are made  from the bone inside the skull of a whale that beaches on Tierra del Fuego.  Inside the skull is a canalita  and along it two bones. Harpoons made from a jawbone are not so strong.”  A delicious odor of roasting seal  was wafting through the aeroplane.

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