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86 The Dolphin Just off the Santa Monica Pier, a dolphin swam in tight circles for hours, having lost its power to echolocate a wiser course. No matter that photographers, marine biologists, and reporters with their mini-cams and prayers tried to will it from its torment: the dolphin churned and turned with dizzy ardor, as if devotion to repetition could set it straight, could help it navigate to freedom. Was it toxins spewed in the ocean that sent its brain to spinning, or do dolphins, just like humans, go off the deep end, either with or without reason? Exhausted, finally, the dolphin drowned. On TV it looked as still as time. But it keeps circling in my mind. ...

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