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A termite mound is a bit like a single living creature. Whereas in us a varying swarm of electro-chemical signals constantly traverse our nerves to run the whole show, the holistic life of a termite tower of dirt is kept going by gangs of these insects devoted to specialised tasks. The idea here is fanciful but hardly new. I can remember at the age of thirteen in an English class giving a talk lifted from a library book entitled The Soul of the White Ant. One friend objects to ‘...grille- / s and...’. It’s part of the tone, and it is pronounceable.

Alan Marshfield

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