Mattobo, where the hell is the "horn of Mexico!"? I think that guy should have his poetic license suspended!!

As for past lives forming later ones, I think it isn't always a dramatic inheritance of your failures or some such, like being a beaver and then having to deal with the beaver's dams. Sometimes its just moving ahead on whatever long-term purposes you may have set. It is very clear to me that I was taken out of action by a large chunk of a (I think) boiler that become suddenly airborne during a naval battle or torpedoing incident and wiped out the whole half of the bridge I stood on. That of course is my best effort o put some kind of interpretation on images and memories a lot less vivid than ones from the current identitiy. Dunno why that is! We're such wusses about it!! "ooo --- I don't reMEMberrrr!".

As for male whales, Mister Guest, the seven-foot tongue is only half the story!

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