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THE GALAXY, January 1871

MEMORANDA.

BY MARK TWAIN.

ANSWER TO AN INQUIRY FROM THE COMING MAN.
[listed in index as "Agassiz"]

"YOUNG AUTHOR." -- Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorous in it makes brains. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat -- at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that perhaps a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales.

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