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GOO

A tale of inertia

There’s a woman I know who’s immobilised by goo. First is was slushy mud around her ankles, but over the years it has spread relentlessly up her legs. No one knows how it started and no one can stop it.

The goo has been invisible to all but the most astute observers. For the most part this woman, let’s call her ‘Claudia’, (which if I remember my Latin correctly means ‘lame one’ ) has been virtually…