Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial, little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches; the females, half of humanity, stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance
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2.In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that it felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as femenine. But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature.
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3. Today is very boring, it’s a very boring day, there is nothing much to look at, there is nothing much to say. There’s a peacock on my sneakers, there’s a penguin on my head, there’s a dormouse on my doorstep, I am going back to bed.
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