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Roll of Twine
Pages 102-105

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... Roll of Twine 56 Discovering the Deep Blue Sea
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... One after another our hands reach for the gently swaying line and our body follows behind. Newton smiles as we practice his third law -- we pull the string back and we propel forward.
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... Soon, the slithery, the charismatic, the wide-eyed, the narrow-faced, the bioluminescent, the alien-like, the green, the blue, the grey, the massive, and the quiet let us attend their neighborhood gatherings, flip through their unpublished books, take a tour of their energy 58 Discovering the Deep Blue Sea
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... plants, and tap into their undocumented culture. We have long since attached the twine to our diving gear so that we can tango through the mesopelagic zone.
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  • aquarium exhibit

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  • greenland shark
  • twilight zone
  • newton smiles


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