Sliming Osama
This morning, I received a kind note from a reader, who found herself thinking oddly about Osama bin Laden after reading my book Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World:
I just read Spineless Wonders in December, and enjoyed it very much. Some of the creatures described were new to me, and I was amazed to find myself feeling sympathetic for the tarantulas. However, the book led to a most unpleasant flashback when I awoke this morning, to the radio news announcing that the body of Osama bin Laden had been “buried at sea”.
My first coherent thought was not about peace or justice or the war on terrorism. It was, “Hagfish!!!” …[…]
Hagfish