| Elijah: | This seems like a good example of Saïd refers to as 'othering' – setting oneself apart from the rest of the world. |
| Jules: | C'mon! It's just a poem about squids. Why the friggin' exegesis? |
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Squiduvular ink bottle floating in the deep mobile jet propulsion lab buoyant delicacy undulating ribbon of terror blue-blooded diaphanous dart fish robber never surfacing sleek bobber contracting & expanding chromatophores dance silently in the dark till a predator draws near snap! snap! without the luxury of worry once again - Death's Lap |
| Soo: | Some of my best friends are squids. |
| Andrei: | Aren't not most politicians in zhat genus? |
| Philyra: | Yep. Utterly spineless – but adept at squirting ink. |
| Ellesha: | Sober up & stop othering government leaders.
For the most part, we create our own monsters . . . there are plenty of squids inside us. |
| Ning: | Each time we 'other' something, we also lose something of ourselves. |
| Vidhya: | Why don't more people notice that? |