Receptacle

She confesses to succumbing to an occasional depressive fit of a sort that seizes upon a view of people such that they are, in their totality, stalks of biological material containing, at the top, a bony receptacle for teeth, which are small, white and deemed valuable because of this structural arrangement. The teeth are in constant peril of loss and lethal impacts from the unpredictable and violent environs in which they are forced to live. It is a simplistic view but not one without an element of suspense.

Carl Hansen Manks
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