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Variant, v. 1, issue 2, whole no. 2, May 1947
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May 1947 VARIANT Page 4 and eat them quickly and without seasoning. Then, swaggering slightly, it would glide again into the water. Idle it is to speculate on the reason for this ovule mastication as practised by Narci. Perhaps this fancy fish had taken Greek tragedy too seriously and desired to emulate Thyestes without the aid of Atreus. (This last sentence is included, not because any sensible person would take it seriously; but only that we may have that one classical apropos which in any lecture is an unwritten law of the rostrum.) Dou-finned Narcissiclinch slid through antiquity as a Swede through smorgasbord and left as few edible remains. A short lived species, perhaps natural enemies prevented its increase. On the Quiltdown skull is inscribed a poem (Hematite must have been under ether quite a while.) I translate it thus: "Him Narcissiclinch him mate no got by himself do by himself do hee-ho hee-ho when him sun him shine HO! " The final HO! probably emphasized by a tap or beat on a tom-tom: perhaps or feast days was added the tweet of a licorice stick. The specimen fragment of the ted sea-weed included in the exhibit is assumed, but not guaranteed to have been used by Duo-finned Narcissiclinch as a kind of net, when, if ever, it confronted a coy shadow. No other explanation would seem to admit its presence. Once it was thought - but only for a short time - to be the veil of The Saitic Isis. Various things were caught up in this net at remote times, and these have been allowed to remain. One is a champagne cork, of a size which is stopped either a fifth bottle or a magnum. It must be of fairly recent origin. Another captive is a tiny beer bottle, empty: it is of a size too small to have interested those who may once have enjoyed the bubbly prisoned by the champagne cork.....Could some lillipution tribe once have picniced in Ave Atque Valley, drinking from tiny beer bottles, having their little affairs, telling their trivial dirty stories? Probably we shall never know..... No more can we demonstrate, with present evidence, that early Duo-finned Narcissiclinchhad its two fins on the same side of its fantastic body, which made it lean a trifle to the left, while later models had one fin on each side, because it balanced better that way. Evidence anent the creature is difficult to come upon. In quest for corroborative data, I answered an advertisement once, which seemed to offer a section of cartilage from one of Narcissiclinches duo fins; but which turned out to be an offer to swap a twenty-two calibre cart[?]dge. Just another one of many setbacks. Rather amusing, too, come to think of it. Cartilage....cartridge...quite funny, really! There is sufficient evidence to warrant a probable opinion that ours is a plausibly reconstructed background of its locale during Palangocryptic times. It changed considerably during the Polished Truncate and more as the earth cooled and the slumkrunk descended from the smalndenk (or warfslew, as Dr. Klmpfendirk has it, perhaps reasonably) while the sea swept up deposits of exrempt loaded with uks, leaving citloon (sic!) scrumpf, or stutz) which gradually formed bublstoon lodes; which took rather a while - but all this happened long after the Duo-finned Narcissiclinch lived and loved. (Professor Gilbey considers it to be nature's compensa- [[illustration text]] Narcissiclino approaching its shadow on the beach. (In this photograph, shadow has fled; Narci hasn't arrived yet.)
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May 1947 VARIANT Page 4 and eat them quickly and without seasoning. Then, swaggering slightly, it would glide again into the water. Idle it is to speculate on the reason for this ovule mastication as practised by Narci. Perhaps this fancy fish had taken Greek tragedy too seriously and desired to emulate Thyestes without the aid of Atreus. (This last sentence is included, not because any sensible person would take it seriously; but only that we may have that one classical apropos which in any lecture is an unwritten law of the rostrum.) Dou-finned Narcissiclinch slid through antiquity as a Swede through smorgasbord and left as few edible remains. A short lived species, perhaps natural enemies prevented its increase. On the Quiltdown skull is inscribed a poem (Hematite must have been under ether quite a while.) I translate it thus: "Him Narcissiclinch him mate no got by himself do by himself do hee-ho hee-ho when him sun him shine HO! " The final HO! probably emphasized by a tap or beat on a tom-tom: perhaps or feast days was added the tweet of a licorice stick. The specimen fragment of the ted sea-weed included in the exhibit is assumed, but not guaranteed to have been used by Duo-finned Narcissiclinch as a kind of net, when, if ever, it confronted a coy shadow. No other explanation would seem to admit its presence. Once it was thought - but only for a short time - to be the veil of The Saitic Isis. Various things were caught up in this net at remote times, and these have been allowed to remain. One is a champagne cork, of a size which is stopped either a fifth bottle or a magnum. It must be of fairly recent origin. Another captive is a tiny beer bottle, empty: it is of a size too small to have interested those who may once have enjoyed the bubbly prisoned by the champagne cork.....Could some lillipution tribe once have picniced in Ave Atque Valley, drinking from tiny beer bottles, having their little affairs, telling their trivial dirty stories? Probably we shall never know..... No more can we demonstrate, with present evidence, that early Duo-finned Narcissiclinchhad its two fins on the same side of its fantastic body, which made it lean a trifle to the left, while later models had one fin on each side, because it balanced better that way. Evidence anent the creature is difficult to come upon. In quest for corroborative data, I answered an advertisement once, which seemed to offer a section of cartilage from one of Narcissiclinches duo fins; but which turned out to be an offer to swap a twenty-two calibre cart[?]dge. Just another one of many setbacks. Rather amusing, too, come to think of it. Cartilage....cartridge...quite funny, really! There is sufficient evidence to warrant a probable opinion that ours is a plausibly reconstructed background of its locale during Palangocryptic times. It changed considerably during the Polished Truncate and more as the earth cooled and the slumkrunk descended from the smalndenk (or warfslew, as Dr. Klmpfendirk has it, perhaps reasonably) while the sea swept up deposits of exrempt loaded with uks, leaving citloon (sic!) scrumpf, or stutz) which gradually formed bublstoon lodes; which took rather a while - but all this happened long after the Duo-finned Narcissiclinch lived and loved. (Professor Gilbey considers it to be nature's compensa- [[illustration text]] Narcissiclino approaching its shadow on the beach. (In this photograph, shadow has fled; Narci hasn't arrived yet.)
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