Word: bouyant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a sad, small eye looking directly at him. The octopus looked like a corpulent ghost: but I suppose that a motionless, eight-handed beast isn't necessarily sad or pensive or dolorously malicious, and that for all I know-and I would much rather think so-he was bouyant with comatose hilarity, passing the time in genial mockery of this poor human being, hopelessly circumscribed with only a quarter of his arms. These thoughts prepared me for the seahorses. They were a fluttering gathering of sylphs, slowed by water, their backs fanning them along by fractions of an inch...