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"Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel? |
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Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor? |
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Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech? |
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Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life? |
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Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children? |
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Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price? |
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Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head? |
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If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won't live to tell the story. |
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What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in! |
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If you can't hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me? |
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Who could confront me and get by with it? I'm in charge of all this--I run this universe! |
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"But I've more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast, his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape. |
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Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin or putting those jaws into bit and bridle? |
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And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth? |
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His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride. |
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Nothing can get through that proud skin-- impervious to weapons and weather, |
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The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable! |
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"He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks. |
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Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch. |
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Smoke erupts from his nostrils like steam from a boiling pot. |
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He blows and fires blaze; flames of fire stream from his mouth. |
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All muscle he is--sheer and seamless muscle. To meet him is to dance with death. |
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Sinewy and lithe, there's not a soft spot in his entire body-- |
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As tough inside as out, rock-hard, invulnerable. |
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Even angels run for cover when he surfaces, cowering before his tail-thrashing turbulence. |
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Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide, harpoons ricochet wildly. |
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Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice. |
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Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops. |
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A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke. |
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His belly is armor-plated, inexorable-- unstoppable as a barge. |
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He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter. |
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With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard! |
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There's nothing on this earth quite like him, not an ounce of fear in that creature! |
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He surveys all the high and mighty-- king of the ocean, king of the deep!" |
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