Serpents
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I saw those huge elephants whose long, flexible trunks were grouting and turning up the soil under the trees like a legion of
serpents
.
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Serpents
were especially important in this belief system because in their fluid, curvilinear movement, they mimicked the flow of water.
After Watergate, Vietnam and the dark days of the Nixon and Jimmy Carter eras, what the world needed was a good old-fashioned chapter-play hero taking on venomous
serpents
and evildoers in the America of 1936 or the jungles of South America in a series of fantastic cliffhanging adventures.
While you may think that this is a silly concept; Aliens crash land on earth, adapt to the culture, and eventually succeed and prosper, all the while averting capture and deportation by diligent and determined civil
serpents
of the renowned INS, only to be suddenly rescued by their own kind and returned to their home planet where Beldar is tried and convicted for losing his space ship.
They even reprinted reports from ancient times: the views of Aristotle and Pliny accepting the existence of such monsters, then the Norwegian stories of Bishop Pontoppidan, the narratives of Paul Egede, and finally the reports of Captain Harrington-- whose good faith is above suspicion--in which he claims he saw, while aboard the Castilian in 1857, one of those enormous
serpents
that, until then, had frequented only the seas of France's old extremist newspaper, The Constitutionalist.
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