Octopus: The Footed Void

[ashling]

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/30/octopus-footed-void/

It is a pneumatic machine that attacks you. You are dealing with a footed void. Neither claw thrusts nor tooth bites, but an unspeakable scarification. A bite is formidable, but less so than such suction. The claw is nothing compared to the sucker. The claw, that’s the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that’s you yourself who enters into the beast. Your muscles swell, your fibers twist, your skin bursts beneath this unworldly force, your blood spurts and frightfully mixes with the mollusk’s lymph. The beast is superimposed upon you by its thousand vile mouths….

[femmocrat]

1. There was a giant octopus that attacked a ship in an old movie.....

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" ---- scared the daylights out of me when I was a kid!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. Fascinating article!

Thanks for posting.