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    Leviathan

    Friday, January 9th, 2009

    [This week's Communications column for the Vanuatu Independent.]
    “Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.” – Psalm 104

    In 1651, an Englishman named Thomas Hobbes used the metaphor of the powerful, even [...]