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	<title>Comments on: The Illustrated Swamp</title>
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	<description>A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer.</description>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-28945</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Maureen.  As I write this, you&#039;ve just recently left my bar in Asheville. Hope you had fun at Tressas.  You made my night...

I love your ink! Thanks for letting me see it here.  I&#039;d love to photograph you sometime--really! Look me up if you get back to Asheville.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Maureen.  As I write this, you&#8217;ve just recently left my bar in Asheville. Hope you had fun at Tressas.  You made my night&#8230;</p>
<p>I love your ink! Thanks for letting me see it here.  I&#8217;d love to photograph you sometime&#8211;really! Look me up if you get back to Asheville.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-26163</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good job Maureen.  I was going to suggest  you submit your tat here when I found out about it.  I can&#039;t wait to see it done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good job Maureen.  I was going to suggest  you submit your tat here when I found out about it.  I can&#8217;t wait to see it done.</p>
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		<title>By: Maureen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-26162</link>
		<dc:creator>Maureen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Go green with green themed tattoos! : Green Resouces</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-20027</link>
		<dc:creator>Go green with green themed tattoos! : Green Resouces</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Flaunting green vegetation: [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Flaunting green vegetation: [...]</p>
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		<title>By: biff</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-16014</link>
		<dc:creator>biff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree from an aesthetic point of view, leaving parts of a canvas unfinished gives a work some inexplicable ... I don&#039;t know...  I think of a van gogh painting of plum trees  with the raw untreated, or un sized canvas coming through as the ground.  The Luna Moth would be fantastic finished, but leaving some elements as outlines  would highlight the color of the finished ones. bc</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree from an aesthetic point of view, leaving parts of a canvas unfinished gives a work some inexplicable &#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230;  I think of a van gogh painting of plum trees  with the raw untreated, or un sized canvas coming through as the ground.  The Luna Moth would be fantastic finished, but leaving some elements as outlines  would highlight the color of the finished ones. bc</p>
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		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-15514</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although I&#039;m sure you intend on finishing it, the outline of the Luna Moth is in some ways very charming.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although I&#8217;m sure you intend on finishing it, the outline of the Luna Moth is in some ways very charming.</p>
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		<title>By: marissa</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/03/24/the-illustrated-swamp/comment-page-1/#comment-9714</link>
		<dc:creator>marissa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your tattoo is amazing, the detail and the coloring is beautiful. I hope you send in updates. I wanted something similar butent only for the botanical elemets, I think you have inspired me to add more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your tattoo is amazing, the detail and the coloring is beautiful. I hope you send in updates. I wanted something similar butent only for the botanical elemets, I think you have inspired me to add more.</p>
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