Thursday, May 1, 2008

If I could be any animal

I think I would be a kraken. A kraken is a legendary sea monster that lives in the deep.

Many people believe that this myth is just based on colossal squid. We don't know a whole lot about them, except that they are huge and possibly even sharks can't kill them.

These specimens are rarely found whole, but there's a slideshow of some of the examination. Check out that beak!

I think it's worth a few minutes of your time to read about how fishers accidentally caught one.

So in summary, I love bread and I love kraken.

Kraken, by Tennyson

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

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