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The magic day has run to afternoon. Dianne stands by the shallows of Hungry Creek, staring at the bottom, trying to visualize the life there. She wants to see it as clearly as she sees the plants and insects around her. What microscopes have revealed they have also made abstract and unreal. She tries to grasp the smallness of the amoeba as she stares into the benthos, but she cannot. She is simply too large, orders of magnitude too large.
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Dewdney, A.K. (1998). Microperson. In: Hungry Hollow. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2220-0_7
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