I know this got brought up in the very previous article you reference, but I feel that it's worth bringing up Hokusai's ur-tentacle-rape work - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife) - just because. The idea of an octopus attacking people belongs to the world, not to any one artist. I believe Verne's done it, too, not even just in the context of sexually assaulting women - just in terms of octopuses being troublesome - like raping gender neutral submarines. You know this, David, I know. You like to say things and wrankle (sp?) things. I know. But let's acknowledge the key role that octopuses and squids play in the horror field and allow the kids their fun.

Momus, (Hi, Momus, hi. (Excuse the lack of exclamation points that keep you from the importance of my feelings for Rita in Lolita - you're less important than that, I'm afraid, though I do have some fondness for you - let's not lie - and you must satisfy yourself with too complimentary and too accurate quotated punctuation) but, hi, Momus - wherever you are, drunk or hangoverish, Momus, hi. (Do have fun exploiting Marxy's friend's weaknesses for masterpieces of writing to whatever end you find) let us be honest, Momus, and all you assembled here today, Marxy is right. As frequent. I'm not going to pretend he gets right all the time; I'm just going to admit that he gets right often, using his abilities to learn and understand data. My point is this - Marxy - did you suss _how_ Japanese that octopus was? (A: Sort of.) Anyways, Marxy, keep it cool, dude. I'll see you soon I hope. Word!

(I mean, Momus, what kind of degenerate is friends with people who like Nabokov? Only the worst kind, the kind that can say a word without that it menas some desperately clever and quite European thing. BL (that's my youth slang for "this is the Bottom Line"), Marxy is probably wrong, probably he would have seen things more clearly just a handful of years earlier in the Japan.)

I urge the rest of you to communicate with Momus through his own home page, Click Opera.

Good day, Boyrand!

I see you know a lot about Japan!

Would you not say, on a scale of 1 to 10, as a country, Japan is an 11.5?

Play on playa! Play on!

小切手, my humble knowledge of Japan is a clumsy 5, though my estimation of the fine country is that it's a positive 8.5.

If Japan is an 11.5, then Thailand would be like a 4 (too hot, too crowded, too many military coups, but they do have Burger King and Dunkin Donuts. And Dairy Queen. And good ramen)

Based on Adamu's description, I would say South Korea is Thailand without any recent coups.

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And the looming threat of atomic annihilation, but whateva'.