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iVoyeur: The Gift of Fire

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DAVE JOSEPHSEN

It was Prometheus, so the story goes, who gave us fire. The other titans being otherwise engaged, it fell to him and his equally guilty but rarely talked about brother Epimetheus to populate the earth with flora and fauna, or at least to furnish them with the good stuff. Being neither solid architects nor effective planners, they may not have been the best choice for the job, for by the time they got around to the humans, they’d completely run out of horns, and antlers, and fangs, and shells, and wings and whatnot.

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August 2012, Volume 37, Number 4
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