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The pure pebbles, oval olives, were once inhabitants of the ocean's vines, clusters of grapes in submerged honeycombs:
The waves picked them, felled by wind, rolling in the abyss among slow-moving fish and sleepwalking jellyfish, tails of lacerated sharks, eels like bullets!