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Soun Tendo: Drowned Octopus Spring?Guide from Jusenkyo: Is tragic tale of giant octopus who drown 1600 year ago ... somehow. By Rumiko Takahashi Tendo Drowned Spring Guide Jusenkyo

. . . More octo . . .pi?' Thaniel said, knowing that it sounded wrong, though so did puses and podes. He tried to think where he had heard it last , but he did not often have business with more than one octopus at a time. By Natasha Pulley Octo Thaniel Knowing Wrong Podes

I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. Adapted to freezing deep-ocean temperatures, I'd flop around down there atpeace. The big concerns of my life would be what sort of bottom-coating slime to feed off of - that's not so different from now - plus I wouldn't haveany natural predators; then again, I don't have any now, and that hasn't done me a whole lot of good. But it suddenly makes sense: I'd like to beunder the sea, as an octopus. By Ned Vizzini Dumbo Octopus Adapted Temperatures Atpeace

The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps. By Ondjaki Octopus Pulsating Steps Multitude Frothing

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub? By Norton Juster Bathtub Heard Blindfolded Octopus Unwrap

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. By Charles Fort Octopus Science Mutilated Stumps Contacts

Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language By Matthew Pearl English Exaggeration Language Octopus

In matters of potential suffering, a single 200,000 years old human being stood against a 550 million years old octopus - acutely aware of its suffering, yet unable to do much to alleviate its misery - is the structural equivalent of comparing the convoluted majesty of the International Space Station to a child's paper and stick kite, and to then stand the octopus against the far more ancient 1.5 billion years old protozoa is to weigh the complexity of the kite to a dust mote caught up in a lazy afternoon breeze. By John Zande Years Suffering Octopus Kite International

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. By John Green Barnacles Consciousness Container Ship

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up at them through the water. By Sy Montgomery Seattle Experiments Identically Water Aquarium

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.)My magnificent octopus. By Richard Curtis Mine Baldrick Paper Octopus Produces

The Eater of Socks,' moaned the Senior Wrangler, with his eyes shut. 'How many tentacles would you expect it to have?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'I mean, roughly speaking? By Terry Pratchett Socks Wrangler Eater Senior Moaned

There is an enormous tentacle somewhere in these pages. By Neil Gaiman Pages Enormous Tentacle

What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth. By Daryl Gregory Tentacles Remember Teeth

You are on a slippery, depraved path. Tentacles, ahoy! By Cari Silverwood Tentacles Ahoy Slippery Depraved Path

An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm. It multiplies by pulling itself in two, without permanently diminishing the original. So with words. A meaning may develop on the periphery of the body of meanings associated with a word, and shortly this tentacle-meaning has grown to such proportions that it dwarfs all other meanings. By Charlton Laird Shapes Arm Amoeba Formless Thing

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid. By Selma Blair School High Tentacles Slugs Calamari

What, everyone you know has been kidnapped by pirates and forced to chop octopus in a kitchen that smells like a whale's stomach?""Quite a lot of them, yes," said Trudi, who appeared to be one of those people who'd heard of sarcasm but thought it was some sort of exotic fruit like a pineapple. By Claire Fayers Trudi Stomach Pineapple Kidnapped Pirates

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. By Edith Sitwell Catfish Unpopular Electric Eel Pool

Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in its swampy arms. It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, fetal heartbeat. It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory; dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue. It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked. Unspeakable. Numb. And to an observer therefore, perhaps barely there. Slowly, over the years, Estha withdrew from the world. He grew accustomed to the uneasy octopus that lived inside him and squirted its inky tranquilizer on his past. Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it. By Arundhati Roy Arrived Quietness Stayed Spread Estha

Seaweed BrainWise Girl By Rick Riordan Girl Seaweed Brainwise

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, "She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness," you would be right. But I bet you didn't guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus. By James Patterson Movie Trapped Cave Life Corny

FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs By Ambrose Bierce Frog Legs Reptile Edible

Aithinne smiles. "You know," she says thoughtfully, "your hair rather looks like an octopus." Then, as if to reassure me: "I love octopi."And Aithinne is obviously a bit barmy, but nobody's perfect. By Elizabeth May Smiles Aithinne Thoughtfully Octopus Octopi

When Mary is confused or perplexed, she spurts anger the way an octopus spurts ink, and hides in the dark cloud of it. By John Steinbeck Mary Perplexed Ink Spurts Confused

I have the backbone of an eel. By Betty White Eel Backbone

I am a giant squid of anger. By John Green Anger Giant Squid

It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees. By H.p. Lovecraft Long Outline Scaly Rubberylooking Body

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one. By Jeff Smith Cooperative Squid Fillings Greek Body

What I mean to say is probably something like this: any single human being, no matter what kind of person he or she may be, is all caught up in the tentacles of this animal like a giant octopus, and is getting sucked into the darkness. You can put any kind of spin on it you like, but you end up with the same unbearable spectacle. By Haruki Murakami Octopus Darkness Kind Single Human

She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes. By Travis Luedke Tangible Strikes Exuded Sexuality Ink

An enormous fish poked his head out of the water and stared at them. "Who are you?" he demanded."Avon Snail, at your service," said Avon."Edward Ant," said Edward. "But I am not at your service. By Avi Service Edward Avon Snail Avon

There is another important difference as well. Human eyes have three visual pigments, allowing us to see color. Octopuses have only one - which would make these masters of camouflage, commanding a glittering rainbow of colors, technically color-blind. How, then, does the octopus decide what colors to turn? New evidence suggests cephalopods might be able to see with their skin. By Sy Montgomery Important Difference Colors Human Pigments

The sleeve covered its appendages well until it reached outward to Grady. Instead of a hand, several dark green and black-splotched tentacles spilled out of the sleeve. They snaked through the air toward Grady's face. They glistened in the early morning light and long strands of a mucous-like substance dripped from them and clung like shiny webs to its robe. By Brian Barnett Grady Sleeve Covered Appendages Reached

Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of a dwarfish and ignoble worm! By Lewis Padgett Flaptongued Boggleeyed Dragbellied Algae Offspring

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there." By Rumi Pond Gamble Ocean Left Frog

I also took a stab at drawing a Novem-Bear. I don't know what a Novem is, but I assumed it meant "balloon salesman." And the Novem-Bear has tentacles because it should. By Dan Bergstein Stab Drawing Novembear Novem Meant

Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and rais'd in Ocean's pearly cavesFirst forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;These, as successive generations bloom,New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing. By Erasmus Darwin Ocean Organic Minute Unseen Mud

That would be the gentleman lobster, By C.j. Hauser Lobster Gentleman

Whats up, Seaweed Brain? By Rick Riordan Seaweed Brain

Astonishingly slimy and dangerous By David Baldacci Astonishingly Dangerous Slimy

It was a womanas pale and luminescent as a ghost, with swirling white hair. Ezra startled, dropping his pencil into the water. Her face snapped toward him. Her eyes were too large, clear green, and had horizontal, slit-shaped pupils, reminiscent of an octopus. By Elizabeth Fama Ghost Hair Womanas Pale Luminescent

It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee. By Alice Munro Mushroom Purple Sort Head Color

Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris gets in our way. By Sy Montgomery Assessing Thinking Mind Creature Alien

The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass. By Brandon Sanderson Tindwyl Mother Terris Tank Perched

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. By Tobias Smollett Hunter Tail Mere Index Held

and well-informed insights into their insular world. We all took our seats as a picture of a smiling Paul Verdun in toque was projected up onto screens. White jackets streamed from the kitchen: the amuse-bouche, a shot glass filled with a bite-sized baby octopus cooked in its "natural essence," extra virgin olive oil from Puglia, and a single By Richard C. Morais World Wellinformed Insights Insular Paul

opponent was half pillbug, half octopus, and all butt ugly. I closed By Richard Roberts Opponent Pillbug Octopus Ugly Half

Bugrit! Millennium Hand and Shrimp By Terry Pratchett Bugrit Shrimp Hand Millennium

Is this chicken or is this fish? By Jessica Simpson Fish Chicken

Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean. By Josh Groban Grobanite Crustacean Makes Type Harmless

The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you. By Dave Barry Mollusks Generous Hosts Kill

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! By Daniel Dennett Sea Life Juvenile Squirt Wanders

How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ... no eight! By Bill Bailey Bulb Amoebas Screw Light

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. By Jeffrey Kluger Bell Excretes Jellyfish Pulsating Tassel

Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a hideous sea monster, all beaks, eyes and tentacles. They were further astonished at its size, since it was rather larger than their village. But their surprise was tiny compared to the huge, stricken expression on the face of the dead monster, which appeared to be have been trampled to death. By Terry Pratchett Find Washed Lagoon Beaks Eyes

Get up seaweed brain By Rick Riordan Brain Seaweed

These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory) By Sherrilyn Kenyon Atlantikoinonia Acheron Tory Turnips Human

What is this?" "Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates." Oh, Henry. He's so romantic. By Deb Caletti Henry Plankton Basically Plant Dinoflagellates

I can go right, I can go left, I'm amphibious. By Charles Shackleford Left Amphibious

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. By Jules Verne Nautilus Speed Watching Eyes Swam

Amoeba ass is so hot. By Tao Lin Amoeba Hot Ass

Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life. By Elizabeth Kolbert Amphibians Greek Meaning Double Life

In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me. By Madeleine L'engle Metron Ariston Transmogrified Tadpole Stage

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath By F Scott Fitzgerald Breath Squalid Phantasmagoria

I am a great soft jelly thing. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. Rubbery appendages that were once my arms; bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within. Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance. Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ... I have no mouth. And I must scream. By Harlan Ellison Thing Great Jelly Soft Mouth

You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the poor bastard who takes a bath with the duckie By Cassandra Clare Rubber Duck Duckie Call Eletric

how can plankton make a shark embarrassed of itself? The correct answer is: it can't. By Krista Ritchie Plankton Make Shark Embarrassed Correct

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water. By Ernest Hemingway, Portuguese Formalized Iridescent Gelatinous Boat

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, By H.p. Lovecraft Octopus Dragon Caricature Extravagant Imagination

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A By H.p. Lovecraft Monster Conceive Sort Symbol Representing

If the plural of "octopus" is "octopi" then why isn't the plural of "rabbit" "rabbi"? Is it just because "octopuses" is too much fun to say? * By Jenny Lawson Plural Octopus Octopi Rabbit Rabbi

You with the tentacles, you're nicked! By Paul Cornell Tentacles Nicked

Ocean, Ocean I'll beat you in the end. By Ken Kesey Ocean End Beat

Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.) By David Mitchell Earlier Bulwarks Stepped Squid Propelled

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious. By Henry David Thoreau Amphibious Lead Life

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls. By Sy Montgomery Souls Animals Soul Octopuses Feel

Australopithecus. By Richelle Mead Australopithecus

In strange and beautiful wares. It sells the lovely animals of the sea, the sponges, tunicates, anemones, the stars and buttlestars, and sun stars, the bivalves, barnacles, the worms and shells, the fabulous and multiform little brothers, the living moving flowers of the sea, nudibranchs and tectibranchs, the spiked and nobbed and needly urchins, By John Steinbeck Sea Wares Strange Beautiful Stars

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile! By Anton Chekhov Muslin Ether Demigoddess Creature Millions

There are monsters in the sea. By Francesca Zappia Sea Monsters

The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden."The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "Mypeople. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn'tmuch apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaksoff into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent. By Annette Curtis Klause Amoeba Aiden Gang Tossing Mypeople

If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass. By John Scalzi Earth Offer Ass Time Bend

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. By Elizabeth Gilbert Lifeform Barnacle Planet Affectionate Cross

Simple accident: a zombie-crewed containership from Southern Kath wrecked in a storm. The containership had been hired to transport a horror from beyond the stars, but the horror broke free and twisted a few hundred miles of Kathic coastline into unearthly geometries before the Coast Guard caught it. Resulting market fluctuations broke the Great Squid. Steve, the priest responsible, was promoted after the event, for exceptional skill managing a crisis, By Max Gladstone Southern Kath Containership Simple Accident

Dawn5am: the frogsask what is it, what is it?It is what it is. By Campbell Mcgrath Frogsask

I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalis, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.''It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no guts and no anus.' Alex had dredged up the facts from somewhere and spoken them before he knew what he was doing. By Anthony Horowitz Sayle Fish Love Kill Physalia

A whale out of water is over-run by ants. By Laozi Ants Whale Water Overrun

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. By Bill Haley Alligator Crocodile

Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure? By Tom Robbins Nonetheless Creation Oyster Item Treasure

My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human. By Saul Bellow God Creature Human

We watch the chef slice eel and octopus, delicate operations of dismemberment and amputation. For some reason it makes me think of poetry. By Jessica Martinez Octopus Delicate Amputation Watch Chef

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. By Brother Dave Gardner Rock Bagpipe Music Sounds Octopus

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil") By Julian Hawthorne Sea Absolute Evil Incomparable Creature

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive. By Henry Ward Beecher Oyster Delicacy Excellence Execute Marvel

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl. By Julio Cortazar Time Thought Great Deal Jardin

About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a couple of miles out at sea to the southeast of Sidmouth, and a lantern was seen waving in a strange manner to and fro and up and down. The nearer boats at once hurried towards the alarm. The adventuresome occupants of the boat, a seaman, a curate, and two schoolboys, had actually seen the monsters passing under their boat. The creatures, it seems, like most deep-sea organisms, were phosphorescent, and they had been floating, five fathoms deep or so, like creatures of moonshine through the blackness of the water, their tentacles retracted and as if asleep, rolling over and over, and moving slowly in a wedge-like formation towards the southeast. By H.g.wells Sidmouth Boat Midnight Excited Hails

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. By Bill Bailey Swans Sharks Trout Orchestras World

I don't remember a single monster before I met you.' he'd told Amphibian. 'Now they seem to be all over the place.''You mean there wasn't anything you were afraid of?' the Amphibian had asked him.'lots.''What did they look like?'It was a funny question.'They didn't look like anything. They were ideas,' Tom told him. 'Like not being able to pay rent, or being lonely.''That's the most terrifying thing I've ever heard.' the Amphibian replied. By Andrew Kaufman Amphibian Remember Single Monster Met

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins. By Kathleen Quinlan Creature Sea Fins Mammal Lost