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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt index 82d74129a9..f81db51f0f 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/database/quotes.txt @@ -698,6 +698,23 @@ jelly A splotch, a blotch..." -Burt Bacharach, "Beware of the Blob" %%%% +kraken + +"... Kraken, also called the Crab-fish, which [according to the pilots of +Norway] is not that huge, for heads and tails counted, he is no larger than +our Öland is wide [i.e. less than 16 km] ... He stays at the sea floor, +constantly surrounded by innumerable small fishes, who serve as his food and +are fed by him in return: for his meal, if I remember correctly what E. +Pontoppidan writes, lasts no longer than three months, and another three are +then needed to digest it. His excrements nurture in the following an army of +lesser fish, and for this reason, fishermen plumb after his resting place +... Gradually, Kraken ascends to the surface, and when he is at ten to +twelve fathoms, the boats had better move out of his vicinity, as he will +shortly thereafter burst up, like a floating island, spurting water from his +dreadful nostrils and making ring waves around him, which can reach many +miles. Could one doubt that this is the Leviathan of Job?" + -Jacob Wallenberg, "Min son på galejan", 1781. +%%%% Menkaure "Ye men of Egypt, ye have heard your king! |