Pattern!  Color!  Via collective-history: The colossal octopus: a drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort (1801) based on descriptions by French sailors. Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. Below the thunders of the upper deep;Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleepThe Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights fleeAbout his shadowy sides; above him swellHuge sponges of millennial growth and height;And far away into the sickly light,From many a wondrous grot and secret cellUnnumber’d and enormous polypiWinnow with giant arms the slumbering green.There hath he lain for ages, and will lieBattening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;Then once by man and angels to be seen,In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.- Alfred Tennyson

Pattern!  Color!  Via collective-history:

The colossal octopus: a drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort (1801) based on descriptions by French sailors.

Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
- Alfred Tennyson

(via collectivehistory)