History of The Parramatta Eels

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“We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
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“Going down for the last time, the last breath lying,
I grapple with eels like ropes—it’s ether, it’s queer
and then, at last, it’s done. Now the scavengers arrive,
the hard crawlers who come to clean up the ocean floor.”
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