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Snakes
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John Deck was a snake fancier. He had only been rattler-bit a few times. At an early age he'd had his own pit full of diamondbacks, a plywood affair out near the garage. Some of the snakes would scootch themselves up vertically along the boards and John, cocky lad, used to knock them back down with his own quick right hand, until one day he presumed against a snake that was readier than he was, and caught a palmload of fangs.
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― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
― The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
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Being excessively competitive in every single thing is what makes men jealous, then takes jealous men, and creates snakes with stakes always desperate to win.
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