Taken from a footnote in "The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz, pg.15
"The Mongoose, one of the great unstable particles of the universe and also one of it's many travelers. Acompaied humanity out of Africa and after a long furlough in India jumped ship to the other India, a.k.a the Caribbean. Since it's earliest apperance in the written record- 675 B.C.E, in a nameless scribe's letter to Ashurbanipal's father, Esarhaddon- the mongoose has proven itself to be an enemy of kingly chariots, chains, and hierarchies. Belived to be an ally of man, many Watchers suspect that the Mongoose arrived to our world from another, but to date no evidence of such migration has been unearthed".
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