I was working on today’s essay when I discovered that I couldn’t link to an older article that expounded slightly on some of the ideas that I want to develop. The article is only two years old, but has already disappeared off the internet. Thankfully, I was the one who posted it, and it still sits on the lovely SarahBellum in a database we never deleted. (It seems that the original content of CoTT was wiped by a later WordPress install. There are some good posts there, and they will be migrated over as time allows.)

We here at Cult of the Turtle come from a long line of packrats, and we’re particularly packratish about data. As we are also down one in the posting game, failing to write on Friday, we decided to post it here, unedited and without comment.

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