Octopusses

Can you imagine that Doc living all by himself here, with snakes and starfish and octopusses?

Gilpatric observed many fights between octopusses. When one is badly damaged, another will often appear in search of an easy meal.

Of course, the next time you are on the beach, you can try it out [Laughter], take the legs of an octopus, and you can even knot them before you glue them together. / In order to classify octopusses, we must therefore classify the irreducible ones, and then we must classify the way you can add them together, as I did just now by cutting and glueing their legs.

“Angel.” I lift her chin. “What happened to the Captain?” / She opens her mouth to speak but all that comes out is a single word, which she gasps as if it is her last, dying breath. / “Octopusses!” She chokes, and spits the word out again. “Octopusses!”