[syndicate] Sharks of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[jeff harrison]

ROGER DODSWORTH: THE REANIMATED ENGLISHMAN 

Sawsharks: 5 species 
in a single family. 

2 long barbels 
before the nostrils. 

locales: western Pacific 
western North Atlantic 
southeastern Atlantic 
western Indian oceans 

* 

FRANKENSTEIN 

Bramble Sharks 
(Echinorhinidae) reach 
a length of over 10 feet. 
they eat bony fishes, illegible, 
smaller sharks, octopuses, 
squid, crabs & eggcases of 
sharks y chimaeras - tangled 
to lambs, to books' mopes 

* 

THE HEIR OF MONDOLFO 

Dogfish Sharks, sunk, watchful, 
guilty, und num'rous / when 
they want to rise, they're oary then 

* 

PREFACE TO THE POETICAL WORKS 
OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 

Frilled Sharks look unto eels, with heads 
as a snake (Herr Bibliothekarius has remarked 
that these may be the "serpents" in "The 
Snake Polisher's Shorter Paradise") 

among the others ever 
this claim may be ascertained personally: 

they are the falcons of the gulf stream 

* 

MATHILDA 

Finback Catsharks are similar to true 
catsharks (Scyliorhinidae), but reveal 
their fictitiousness via their first dorsal fins 
positioned in front of the pelvic fins!! 

* 

A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN 

Thresher Sharks (order Lamniformes)? 
precaudal pits, yes. caudal keels, no. 
20 feet long... caudal fins nearly as long 
as the body... sunk 1,650 feet beneath 
the watery floor... Parnassian...   ... 

* 

THE FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECK 

Longtailed Carpetsharks frequent contemporary 
shipwrack. on land (where mountains turn, event- 
ually, pleasant) they'd be more playful, mariners 
request, but even thru Herr B's thickest care comes 
the recall (gliding blithe as thru reefs) of L.C. indecorous 

 			
---------------------------------
See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com.  Check it out.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tekspost.no/mailman/private/syndicate/attachments/20060717/5b7d165b/attachment.html>