For the House of Illustration Folio Society competition.
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"From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult."
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"Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips."
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"very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west;"
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