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| 024f71d | und diese war so lebendig und so gesprachig und machte sich aus seiner Gegenwart und aus seiner Schuchternheit so wenig, dass er unbehilflich und ein wenig beleidigt die Fuhler einzog und sich verkroch, wie eine vom Wagenrad gestreifte Wegschnecke. | wheel snails | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1047d3f | "Feel this," says Harold Bazin, and crouches and brings her hand to a curved wall which is completely studded with snails. Hundreds of them. Thousands. "So many," she whispers. "I don't know why. Maybe because they're safe from gulls? Here, feel this, I'll turn it over." Hundreds of tiny, squirming hydraulic feet beneath a horny, ridged top: a sea star. "Blue mussels here. And here's a dead stone crab, can you feel his claw?" | snails | Anthony Doerr |