GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1785
“The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.”
(the beginning of the poem “The Hippopotamus” by T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965)
CHICAGO SHOOTING GALLERY
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