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The octopus has
eight of something.
If they're legs then
all the arms are missing. Nature often
makes mistakes in
distribution. You'd
think it would be
more distressing. Too
many rubber legs with
suckers, too many sets
of teeth on top each other:
some button in the
shop stuck on or off.
Sometimes a brain-feed
sticks until the brain
that gets delivered has
a hundred times the strength it needs in
nature. Which changes
nature. A hundred
other creatures
gang together in a chain
of mutual interest
they wouldn't have perceived
without the strange intelligence.
-Kay Ryan