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“The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was…” quote by Ridley Pearson
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“The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.”

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