Meet Lotar, King Of The Insect World!
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Lotar, King Of The Insect World was, as his name indicated, the actual King of the actual Insect World, as it existed throughout Velandia.
A Giant Stick Praying Mantis (see Fig. 10), Lotar shared the basic anatomic structures common to Many adult insects:
Fig. 10: “Here you can see the body plan of a mantis clearly. This is an adult female of Sphodromantis baccettii.” (Copyright © 2019 Keeping Insects. All Rights Reserved)
A body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen)
Six legs
Wings
Two antennae
Compound eyes, and
A rigid exoskeleton.
However, his front legs were actually thorn-covered hooks called abducting legs or “raptoriales;” effectively, traps out of which large captive prey were unable to escape!
He was also able to freely rotate his characteristically triangular head upon his jointed neck more than 180 degrees (unique in the insect World!), which allowed him to stay perfectly still, while having a non-standard field of view in which to watch for the arrival of prey, wherever it appeared.
When he found himself in times of trouble, he would reassure himself consolingly, “All other insects have their heads fused to their thorax, and are incapable of such almost periscopic mobility. So there's always that!”
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It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just ...
It Never Happened (A Memoir In Meme Form)
= CHAPTER ONE: "TEN YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY"
"It was pretty much exactly ten years ago this very day -- "
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my brother met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"He played one of his l favorite funny, funny jokes on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And then he would completely deny it. The first time he ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are ...
So It Was Pretty Much Exactly Ten Years Ago This Very Day: A Short Story
“ . . . It never happened."
"Yes, it did. That was the day that my sister met me for lunch at a casual dining seafood restaurant in Wareham, Massachusetts."
"You are deluded."
"The reason I remember it so well is that -- "
"You lie."
"She played one of her l favorite funny tricks on me. Which was to arrange a meeting and then totally stand me up. Which was super super funny. And the she would completely deny it. The first time she ever did this was in 1979. In Harvard Square."
"You fantasize."
"And I believe that this lunch we had together was the first initial swirl, in what was to be my final -- I was circling the drain. For the last time. I was a horrible person! I was the worst type of person a person could be. Also, I was completely out of my mind. My whole entire life up to this point had been just one long, endless series of psychotic breaks, one after the other, for f -- "
"You are manipulative. What is it you really want?"
"And ...
