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calm and not easily excited
- But these new women are neither lopsided nor sad: they're placid, like animated statues.p. 100.7
- Placid.p. 51.8
- Crake had the kanga-lamb, a new Australian splice that combined the placid character and high-protein yield of the sheep with the kangaroo's resistance to disease and absence of methane producing, ozone-destroying flatulence Jimmy ordered the raisin-stuffed capon — real free-range capon, real sun-dried raisins, Crake assured him.p. 292.4
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