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May I modestly point out that G. R. H. Purdy’s whale-milking suggestion
(Letters, 3 April) is the exact theme of my novel The Deep Range (1957).
However, I decided that killer whales would make better herdspersons than
porpoises.

Arthur C. Clarke Colombo, Sri Lanka

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