Octopus, oh Octopus!

[David Morris]

I've stopped eating octopus.  It's not really a principled stance, because
I still eat many other intelligent animals.  And I never really ate much
octopus anyway...

David Morris

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 2:29 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> »Boundaries and borders gone!«
>
> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker
>
> (I'd call it progress if the Plisters would stop eating octopus. Only
> saying, to quote a prominent one.)
>
>
>
> >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> >> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> in the visual arts there is Hokusai's "The Dream of the Fisherman's
> >>> Wife",
> >>>
> >>> In Hans Biedermann's lexicon of symbols (see Knauers Lexikon der
> >>> Symbole, p. 312-313) it says that the octopus did have a
> mythic-symbolic
> >>> meaning in Greek antiquity which is still unknown. Biedermann also
> >>> speculates that the octopus might have been the real world model for
> both,
> >>> Medusa's head and the Scylla. "The dark cloud of ink worked as a
> symbol of
> >>> the animal's affinity to higher powers." Later the octopus was, in
> liaison
> >>> with the prawn, occasionally allocated to the astrological sign of
> Cancer.
> >>> The ink of the octopus was used as writing ink, and its bite was
> considered
> >>> to be toxic.
> >>>
> >>>
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