When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
Yotam Ottolenghi
The Origin of Squid
Do you know where the word squid comes from?
Because if you do, you’re the first. Dictionaries describe the etymology of the word as “obscure” and “unknown”. It just popped up in 1613 (shortly after the King James edition of the Bible came out) and stuck around. Before then, it seems they were lumped in with their cousins the cuttlefish – because one ten-tentacled sea-beastie is much like another.
The Communion of Poetry
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else’s suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Mary Karr