Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 369
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
“Lernaeodiscus porcellanae turns control of the host into a fine art. After castration by the parasite, male crabs develop female characteristics in both anatomy and behavior, while females become even more feminized. The emerging externa then takes the same form and position as the crab's own egg mass… The crabs then treat the externa as their own brood. In other words, the parasite usurps all the complex care normally invested in the crab's own progeny.”
Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 368
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
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Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 371
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
Triumph of the Root-Heads, p. 367
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight.”
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Peace+1083
Peace, line 1083
Peace (421 BC)
“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”
Charles Bukowski
(1920–1994) American writer
“I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.”
Dane Cook
(1972) American actor and comedian
Harmful If Swallowed (2003)
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 283)