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Q: Seeking title of an Avatar like book from the 1980s

Eddie ArniThe books I am looking for is probably from the 1980s. I read it in about 1989. It is not LeGuin's Word for the World is Forest, which was published in 1972. This one is much longer. In this book, humans have occupied a forest planet and are harvesting underground insect chitin, from which a long...

 
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Q: Address to a Haggis, "Your pin wad help to mend a mill", meaning

PeteAddress to a Haggis By Robert Burns The groaning trencher there ye fill, Your hurdies like a distant hill, Your pin wad help to mend a mill In time o'need, While thro' your pores the dews distil Like amber bead. I think I've managed to get my head around most of the poem, but this line eludes m...

 
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@Bookworm Your vote wad help to make a HNQ.

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