Since a whole octopus is something of a minority taste when it comes to pin-up material, we have Edith here rendered as something mermaid-like.
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I should imaging that Rebecca Waite, being who and what she is, will indeed find some very interesting use to make of the data and technology Edith Sterling transmitted to her.
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Nothing like having a helpful mermaid show up to aid your passage to…
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Is this the end of the line for Edith Sterling?
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…some government somewhere gets involved and ruins everything.
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It’s all fun and games being an octopus, until…
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Thomas Nagel was actually asking what it was like to be a bat, but it’s really weirder to ask what it’s like to be an octopus.
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The mad science team monitors the situation.
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And the mad science does its work.
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Naturally this process merits a full-color page.
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