(Re)Marked
Jul01
Ordinarily, there would be a lot of competition for such a treat…
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Hellena
We’re off to see the Sorceress? The Gracious Sorceress of Seas.
Bruce
First things first. I just got a whiff of whale carcass. Just starting to ripen. Good eatin’, them.
We’re off to see the Sorceress? The Gracious Sorceress of Seas.
Bruce
First things first. I just got a whiff of whale carcass. Just starting to ripen. Good eatin’, them.
I’m looking forward to seeing what these girls think of that idea, freshly rotting whale carcass. Still, can’t be too picky.
If they truly believe they are mermaids, they will think it a delicacy
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“We’re off to see the Sorceress? The Gracious Sorceress of Seas.”
Make sure she said that with the right cadence …
Another movie (What’s a movie?) reference that one or two remember, but don’t know how they remember.
This is getting kind of confusing … but I want to see how Andy ties all of this together later.
So Cool!
Looking forward to when Neapolitan Trio meet up with the Mermaid Twins 😀
“Just starting to ripen” is a little bit different than “thoroughly rotten”. What is happening at this stage is that the meat is softening up and making it easier to eat. A live whale’s muscular tissue –to say nothing of the tough hide– would be like biting into a car tire.
Decomposition in the ocean often works a bit differently than on land. Different organisms of all types are eating away at it at every stage of breakdown, so real “rotting” rarely has much chance to happen. Not to mention the cold at the ocean floor in deep water works to preserve flesh much like your refrigerator does… closer to your freezer at some depths.
Another tangentially related fact worth mentioning: in most fully carnivorous animals (as opposed to omnivores like humans) predator species get a lot of their needed vitamins by eating the organs, in addition to the “meat” that is primarily muscle tissue, and is mostly protein and needed fats.
So, don’t want those guts you cleaned out of the fish you caught for dinner? Feed them to the dog or cat! It’s good for them!