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Virgil, Janet Lembke (trans). Virgil's Georgics. Yale University Press, 2006 (Georgica, -29). Advice for all seasons, and very rich, even if his wasn't a century when you would actually expect to meet a god on a farm.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.