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Bobbi Cordy <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Feb 1998 22:00:09 -0500
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MR ART WEIL wrote:
>
>    Maybe you got this before, but I think it got lost because I
> didn't get it my own self. (We've been having a bad-hair-day in
> Cincinnati, 10 inches of snow on the ground and five more predicted,
> and blowing and drifting, and doing all sorts of other mean things.)
>     But what I wanted to ask was in regards to the discussion of
> colors on shells. The question is: Do mullusks themselves perceive
> color? If they don't, the idea of color being a sexual stimulant goes
> out the window---into the snow. Do things that prey on Mullusks
> perceive color? Can color (at depth) be perceived in any other way
> than by eyesight?
>      Art
Perhaps God just made them beautiful like he did flowers, birds, trees,
etc. for man's enjoyment!

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