“Crocodiles sweetly shut their lidded eyes, and yawned,
for the blond meat had been quite good, and in slow rains
new flesh would sprout once more and then be munched anew.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Book XI, line 652
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

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Greek writer 1883–1957

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