Is the kraken a real sea monster?
Is the kraken a real sea monster?
Try drinking half a liter of the stuff and tell me the kraken is not real.
That's a squid, not a kraken.
lovepole wrote:
That's a squid, not a kraken.
From Wikipedia (in this case correct, if one goes by the references in the article).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken"Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. The legend may have originated from sightings of giant squid that are estimated to grow to 13–15 m (40–50 ft) in length, including the tentacles."
88d8ds wrote:
Is the kraken a real sea monster?
Vs other sea monsters that *are* real?
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides: above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
In my world the kraken is conceived in my stomach, gestated in my bowels, birthed from my sphincter, and deposited for the world to endure in a toilet. (And sometimes my underwear, in which case it is mine to suffer.)
Yes. In the old days, the navy would lasso kraken and use them to tow submarines to save diesel fuel.