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Originally Posted by anthony
So if "Most people think they are just
above a chunk of rock in terms of sensibility" which might be so
my question is still:
Why do we, when we talk about natural pearls, hold on to the “irritation story” instead of telling what we know, that one cause of pearl formation is the dislodging of mantle tissue and the inversion of the nacre producing side so that it faces inward rather than outward (the explanation of Zeide).
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Hi Corine,
We probably hold on to that theory because the mollusk finds the dislodging and inversion of its mantle tissue's nacre-producing side to be abnormal and irritating while the thing slowly migrates around its sensitive body. Ouch. Yowee. Ouch, ouch. Yikes!
But what do I know?? I am not a mollusk going crazy trying to "neutralize" weird abnormal tissue possibly heading towards my gonad.
Slraep