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39 XIII. Ichnology Hypothesis: research will never patch the rift between deductions and unknowns. Alone, the lab tech’s notes, in chicken scratch, go downhill (college-ruled into unruly)— he’d hoped for temples, giant raptor bones, a tunnel to boyhood’s Ultima Thule. In practice, he feels like the missing link, drawing stick figures in archival ink. It’s late (even downstairs he hears the apes), and sorting evidence of evidence of prehistoric life—footprints and scrapes, burrows and coprolites—he can’t explain its origins, much less its relevance. Epochs of pressure form one marbled vein; the afterimage of receding glaciers a tabula rasa, record of erasures. ...

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