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Volume 1 , Number 4 ::::: 2002-10-25 — 2002-11-07
Trawler nets 40 foot giant squid
Four hundred forty pounds of squid were snagged in the net, dragged up from nearly a mile down and pickled like a brain. At the museum, it will float in suspension with the dogfish embryos, beside the two-headed piglets and the skeletons of humpbacked whales, hanging in its own unique purgatory, or hell, endlessly replaying in its mind the day that the sperm whale chased it for an hour on a single breath of air, and silently enduring the tourists as they talk excitedly about Captain Nemo and fantasize about calamari rings as big as car tires.
