Thread: Visions of the Serengeti
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Unread 03-24-2003, 06:19 PM
Rhina P. Espaillat Rhina P. Espaillat is offline
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I didn't even think of that "in balance" as short for "in the balance," and didn't picture a scale at all. I thought of it as adverbial, evenly poised over life and death.
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