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karma for dharma?

whisky

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what do swans symbolize anyway?
Late bloomers a la Ugly Duckling who turns into a swan? I've never really known.
 
From Lostpedia:

Possible Swan References

* "The Swan" was the name of an Elizabethan theatre in London. [1]
* SWAN Instruments are instruments that can be used to measure electromagnetic fields.[2]
* The constellation of Cygnus is also known as "the Swan". [3]
* Sir Joseph Wilson Swan is an English physicist and chemist. [4]
* HMAS Swan was an Australian Navy ship launched on 16 December 1967. The ship is now a dive wreck and artificial reef 1.3 nautical miles off Point Picquet, Western Australia. [5]
* The Swan is a short musical composition for cello and piano from Carmille Saint Saens' "Carnival of the Animals".
* The Sanskrit word for swan is hamsa or hansa, which sounds similar to Hanso [6] [7]
* Swans are characterized by their monogamy in mating habits--they are always seen in pairs.
* Swans are revered in many religions and cultures, especially Hinduism. The Sanskrit word for swan is hamsa or hansa, and a swan is the vehicle of many deities (such as the goddess Saraswati). Swans are mentioned several times in the Vedic literature, and some swans have also been said to have the knowledge of the Supreme Being Brahman. They are said to reside in the summers in the Manasarovar Lake and migrate to Indian lakes for the winter, eat pearls, and separate milk from water in a mixture of both. Hindu iconography typically shows the Mute Swan. It is wrongly supposed by many historians that the word hamsa only means a goose, since today swans are no longer found in India, not even in most zoos. However, ornithological checklists clearly classify several species of swans as vagrant birds in India.
* The cartoon Jack is forced to watch in captivity features swans swimming.
* A "Black Swan" is used to refer to an event that is catastrophic, and almost impossible to predict or prepare for. Some used the phrase to refer to 9/11.
 
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