Octopus

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt hag at iafrica.com
Thu May 30 17:59:07 CDT 1996


Steely sez:
 
> The Octopus, of course, is yet another manifestation of Standard Oil, and 

Bruce_Appelbaum responds:

>>      To paraphrase Freud, sometimes an octopus is just an octopus.

Ahh, but did you know that the octopus is also the most intelligent of all 
invertebrates, a veritable genius amongst invertebrates, something 
all those old mapmakers filling in the white spaces around the known 
territories ("let there be monsters") probably didn't know - but TRP 
might have.

h(KRAKEN)g
hag at iafrica.com





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