Porphyrios (whale)
The sound of sudden inhalation followed, like water being sucked down a drain. I caught a glimpse of a pinkish gray hump before it vanished beneath the murky surface. “Boto,” said Soldado as he tossed his cigarette butt over the railing. The legendary Amazonian river dolphin. It surfaced again, and this time the animal sprayed water ten feet into t
... See moreScott Wallace • The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
this is one of the most magical places on the island - and there are a lot of those🐋
whales are so cool - sea mammals that have LUNGS so they have to come to the surface to breathe. they can live up to 90 years and we still don’t know why they breach. It feels like they know more about us than we do about them, and I’d... See more
_jill_taylorinstagram.com“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” The critic and novelist Namwali Serpell told me that the quotation appeals to her in this moment, even though Žižek’s translation is slightly unfaithful to the original. The phrase “now is the time of monsters,” Serpell said, “allows us to think about the... See more