A small towel to wipe its eyes…
Seven
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Marine biologists when told to work from home
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I chose A because, given the option of 1, 2, or 8 Spock Socks… ME WANT ALL SPOCK SOCKS
…of course any other character with pointy ears will do too: Yoda, Galadriel, Tuvok, Legolas, Dobby…
um…
can’t think of anyone for Dr Who at the moment.
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This raises so many questions for me. Are the feet of different legs different shapes? Does the spider use them in different ways? Is there a sock vs glove situation going on here or would the spider be confused by that distinction? Would the spider consider shoes or just socks?
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Probably C. It’s a miracle if I can find one matching pair of socks. Trying to find four matching pairs would take too long, lol.
What about millipedes?
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This is fantastic. :-) We’ve got carpenter bees who nest every year in a beam above our barn entrance. They patrol the area below the nests and make what I call our “bee curtain” that we have to pass through to get in the barn. It’s great for impressing visitors with your apparent fearlessness for walking through the bee curtain. I explain that there’s nothing to worry about… if they believe me, then they’ve learned an important lesson about bees. If they don’t believe me, they think I’m a bee whisperer, and I’m OK with that.
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Here’s one I made!
It actually looks like a cool outfit.
Montezuma Quail photo credit: Yinan Li https://www.inaturalist.org/people/diomedea_exulans_li
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But Gregor Samsa was not a beetle, but a roach (except on some Metamorphosis copies’ covers, where there appears a frog beetle instead of a roach. Have you ever seen that? It’s so funny).
Check it out:
I couldn’t find the one I meant, but I casually googled Metamorphosis and found lots of them more.
Like this one, with a poor jewel beetle:
Or this one, with a stag beetle!:
This one’s funny (although it’s in Spanish):
This one’s got a dung beetle!:
This tenebrionid was also a victim (also in Spanish):
And the list keeps going (now a longhorn):
Clearly not a roach either:
There’s just so many I’ve just got to pick the best!:
A caterpillar hunter:
Oh my goodness! A diving beetle!:
And last, but not least, not roaches, not even beetles:
I know no one asked for this but it became too funny for me to contain. See how many species lost their dignity because of this? And there were many more.
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If I remember correctly, Kafka never specifies exactly what type of creature Gregor Samsa is transformed into. He uses the term “Ungeziefer”. This isn’t a biological category, but a generic one (somewhat like the colloquial use of “bug” for any insect in English); it has strong negative connotations – it would be used for pest insects that infest human spaces. The formation of the word also has resonance with the word for “monster” (Ungeheuer).
The anatomical characteristics described in the book suggest something beetle-like and it is often interpreted as such, while others have argued that a cockroach would be more appropriate. Kafka left it unspecified intentionally and in fact he didn’t want the creature to be depicted on the cover of the book.
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I think in Spanish it has been indeed translated as a roach, that’s why I thought of it that way.
Wow, some of those covers look like posters for horror movies (especially the Simon & Schuster cover).
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There’s like a thing of mixed feelings there. They are so scary and so freaking funny at the same time.
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Is this… accurate?
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