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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

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Jay Griffiths
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 1
Artist
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Manchester
England
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