Wandering around the blogipelago I dropped in on PZ Myers and read about the Moray Eel and its feeding habits. Rather good, the Pharyngula blog discussing pharyngeal jaws.
I also found the following. Be very careful which sect’s books you choose to read!
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What was it, the hitchhiker’s guide through galaxy?
Sebastian, Alas, no. I wish it had been as benign as that. I fear it was a copy of the Necronomicon of the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. I’m not sure I wish to live in a world where that dread volume exists.
Ah, I had mistakenly identified it on PZ’s blog as the Gospel of Cthuhlu… I stand corrected.
dorid, I wasn’t certain THAT dread volume had resurfaced but when you combine that with the asteroidal near-miss, it is suspicious.
Sehr geEhrter AerChie
As a struggling (almost) Author, I would like the views of yourself & your illustrious Visitors on what I could hope for if I submitted a novel to a Publishing House
I have already got what I think is a brilliant opening :
“As Roger Tsamtsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a gigantic Cuttle Fish
He was lying on his hard, as it were armour-plated, back and when he lifted his head ein bisschen [a little] he could see his dome-like belly divided into staff arched segments on top of which the bed-quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous tentacles, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk waved helplessly before his eyes”
To get the next paragraphs I would perhaps have to eat lots of [illicit, fattening, delicious] Cheese, washed down with wonderful Aussie Rot-Wein and then have a troubled dream-filled sleep – but does the Art justify the ensuing Over-Hang
I think this would have great prospects if I could find a good German translator …. these German Intellektuellen seem to like this sort of Stoff, now that they’ve almost completed their take-over of the European Reich and literary diversion for them would be most reqVisite
BUT would I open mysen to accusations of specie-ism
AND has her Grace the Marchioness de WitchH etc (la tentacled Mne) already thought of this idea for her next post ?
Is this an idea that already occurring to a talented author like M Metro, who seems (according to a recent post on his Golb) to have been transmogrified into a Canadian Platypus
Es macht man denken, nee
Das ist es, doch
Alles Gute
G Eagle
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“…. stiff arched segments ….. la tentacled Une …”
Herr Struggling Writer, I fear an attempt to make a fortune by writing a gothic horror novelette in olde Deutsche could be doomed to un-success. The German sense of humour is horrific. Which is at least better than our transatlantic cousins who believe “humour” and “loud” are synonyms. I would also suggest an excursion into Italian literature as they have far better Hell-condemnation skills which date back over half a millennium. It may also be advantageous to avoid la Francais as few will be interested in reading of the existential struggles of Frankenstein.