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Like a fish out of water...
'Alien beings. Their whole body: every bone, every membrane, every hollow, Part of an enormous ear, Twenty times as sensitive as man's"
Heathcote Williams, "Whale Nation", 1988.
It was the"otherness" of such a mountain of dead flesh that attracted the crowds as if they needed to see with their own eyes the Leviathan even in such as sorry and final state.