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PAGE 27 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Turpentine and Claudia stand in front of the vague underwater image of the creature, illuminated with a lightbox as if it were an X-Ray. Both are wearing white coats. Turpentine is pointing to the large siphon-like structure.

Turpentine (1): So, I suppose this structure is actually a specialized feeding orifice.

Translation (1): Supongo que esta estructura es en realidad un orificio de alimentación especializado.

Claudia (2): When you’ve eliminated all the other possibilities, what remains, however implausible…

Translation (2): Cuando eliminas todas las otras posibilidades, lo que queda, por muy improbable que sea…

Panel 2: Turpentine back in his office, being interviewed.

Turpentine (3): Combining what we know from the native folklore and observed behavior and morphology, we seem compelled to conclude that every nineteen years, this creature comes near the surface and wants to eat young women.

Translation (3): Combinando lo que sabemos del folclore indígena y el comportamiento y la morfología observados, nos vemos obligados a concluir que cada diecinueve años, esta criatura sale a la superficie y quiere comer mujeres jóvenes.

Panel 3: A closer-in view of the mass of tentacles in the underwater image.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (4): It enmeshes them in tentacles, stimulates them, and eats them. We have no idea why.

Translation (4): Las envuelve en sus tentáculos, las estimula y las come. No sabemos por qué lo hace.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE NARRATING (5): Our methods to capture or closely study it have hitherto all failed.

Translation (5): Nuestros métodos para capturarlo o estudiarlo de cerca hasta ahora han fallado.

Panel 4: Turpentine in his office, being interviewed.

Turpentine (6): We have been pushed to the conclusion that if you want to hook a fish, you have to have…bait.

Translation (6): Hemos llegado a la conclusión de que si quieres atrapar a un pez, debes tener… carnada.

  Carnada (Español/Versión de página larga)
Carnada (Español/Versión deslizante)