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© 2012 Sylvia Liu
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Add fire (in the belly, eat or be eaten, ever forward - or maybe backward in my case) and water (around me, in me, part of me in the same proportion as the world surrounding me) to make steam. Steam ahead (or behind). Steam on, Teuthida, order of Cephalopoda, class of Mollusca, phylum of Animalia. Engine of need. Engine of steam.
Squid, what are you hiding beneath the bulk of your steam engine? What lurks behind your ink? What are you dissimulating? Why this slight of tentacle? Why such prestitentaclation? Never has bilateral symmetry appeared so beguiling.
ReplyDeleteSquid, I feel we are not so different after all.
P.S. Are you more mobile when free of your machine?
Love the artistic addition to this class, by the way. Would it be obvious or pretentious to paint a squid using squid ink?
ReplyDeleteHat, gloves and goggles for the journey seems appropriate. Purple eyes are perfect.
ReplyDeleteDo the cogs turn clockwise? Or counter? Is he moving toward the center of the earth or away? What sound do the tentacles make as they glide over and through water?
Scientists use the Robotic Submarine Squid for many purposes, but it is most essential for research in traumatology, catastrophology, and perturbology, those electrical areas too dangerous for mankind. The eyeballs prove especially useful in deciphering the moods of signs, symbols, and portents. Communication is made possible with bubbles and blinks as well as the occasional wiggle.
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