Alexander the Great (Indus Delta) part 29
Posted on 11/27/2019 8:57:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv
I love mignonette sauce on fresh shucked oysters - food of the Gods. Oyster stuffing today, have to make it separate so the wife doesn’t freak - she’s not enlightened like some of us. Happy Thanksgiving, FRiend.
He was a quiet man, kept to himself. It’s lucky for everyone that he came out of his shell.
HT: Perhaps what makes it hard to make sense of this paragraph is the ambiguity of the phrase “its length at death.” I think that these spiral snails grew longer the older they got and therefore you could estimate their age by how long the shells had grown. Since they probably still start their 12 month cycle at roughly the same time and grow at roughly the same rate, you can then tell at which month the oyster they were on was killed and eaten and thus the month the snail died.
That’s the guy...
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