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[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.
Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
SPIDER PIG
SPIDER PIG
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does
Can he swing
From a web
No he cant
He's a pig
Look ouut!
He is a SPIDER PIG!!
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!
Mouse-brained fool
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.
Carcharadon carcharias. Six thousand
pounds of muscle powering a hoop
of butcher's knives. The only animal
that ate its weaker siblings in the womb.
Immune from cancer. Constantly awake.
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
For when you come to think of it, which is the real shape of the glowworm: the insignificant little creature crawling about on the palm of you hand, or the poetic spark that swims through the summer night?
It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
Armadillos that, in some cases, grew to be as large as Fiat 500s.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
A slug has its bottom in its head.
SCORPIUS: Always.
THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.
What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)
It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .
The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I don't think something that calls itself a 'world eater' is a good thing.
What has 32 legs and 1 tooth?'
What?' we all asked.
A West Virginia unemployment line.
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
What has three eyes,
three nipples and two assholes?
A chemical weevil," said Jesper, "But Wylan still hasn't named it. My vote is for the Wyvil."
"That's terrible," said Wylan.
"It's brilliant," Jesper winked. "Just like you.
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?
Tortoise, Tortoise get bigger, bigger. Come on Tortoise grow up, puff up, shoot up! Spring up, Blow up swell up! Gorge! Guzzle! Stuff! Gulp! Put on fat, Tortoise, Put on fat! get on, Get on! Gobble food!!
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"
There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well ... if you keep quiet about it, I will.
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under
A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I hoped was a smile. At least there weren't any sharp teeth.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.
It's an alien."
"Sand crab," Leon said. "It won't hurt you."
"It sure is ugly."
"Ugly never hurt a thing."
I scoffed. "Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It's just that pretty hurts more."
"Amen.
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.
a creature of impulse.
The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for 'dragonfly' and couldn't.
the lizard living at the base of her spine
Bug on the wall.
The Komodo Dragon
An upturned tortoise is the ninth most pathetic thing in the entire multiverse.
Technically, we're all half centaur.
Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.
At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf.
Beelzebug n. Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Disembodied limbs
Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can't see me! Attercop! Attercop! Won't
PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
And crawling on the planet's face,
some insects called the human race.
Lost in time, and lost in space.
And meaning.
Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
A little roving, solitary thing.
I was a small insect faced with a formidable male network web in which I might be ensnared but never a part.
Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.
A giant caterpillar, its segmented body made of severed human heads, their faces screaming, their tongues functioning as legs, rippled up a wall and began tearing out chunks of concrete where a ledge had been worn, destroying another shrine.
It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.
I felt sorry for myself since my wimpy dom can't catch a snail crossing the sidewalk.
A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch."
Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know."
"It is a bit.
Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth ...
Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies.
Timothy Leary
You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.
The termites have got me.
Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory.
"What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". "
Millions of tiny arthropod feet swarmed over me until my entire body was enveloped. They
My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!
Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.
If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
It's a geode. You can sess that, the way the rock around you abruptly changes to
Be the cockroach
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.
Maker - their word for worm,
C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)
The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go.
The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's
In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though the distinction is razor-thin, desperation is not the same thing as determination. Nevertheless, auto-cannibalism is one the most intriguing phenomenon I have ever heard of.
Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
Bury me and I'll thrive as countless insects.
I bend neither to your weapon nor will.
Even as you trample upon my bones I cower not under your soulless tread, or fear your shadow casting upon my grave.
Is that my foot?
Silly me, it's a starfish
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
Insect, pup, or rat. It certainly seems to me that you don't know what he is, so maybe you should leave him alone...
'Gracious, Lorelei, you should have kept your mouth shut! Why not just call him a smelly rhinoceros wart while you're at it?' (Lorelei)
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in human carpets, in our beds, on our food, floating in the air, in fact, they are omnipresent.
Now we see you, you nasty little creature! We will eat you and leave your bones and skin hanging on a tree. Ugh! he's got a sting has he? Well, we'll get him all the same, and then we'll hang him head downwards for a day or two." While