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Saturday, June 22, 2013

On Alberta's Flood, Harper and climate change: learning to face 'the facts' - a tweet



To send the Deluge is to crack the whip!

- from The Epic of Gilgamesh, Babylonia, circa. 21st century BC[1]




[1] The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian, tr. and intro. Andrew George (Penguin: Toronto, 1999), p. 41 (The Standard Version, Tablet V 105).

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