Wednesday, December 24, 2008

l'hippocampe


June 2008, Mermaid Parade, Coney Island. My photograph.

did y'all know that the french word for "seahorse" is l'hippocampe? and that the hippocampus of le human brain was named after it because some psychobiologist thought it looked like a seahorse and that's it? i guess it was originally a greek word. little sea monster. i think it looks a bit more like a pea-pod, pea-pod where all my dreams and guess-who games are slumbering...

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