Illustrated Bestiary: Page 2

Also knows as Pen Pusher Mosquito

Much has been written about animals that managed to adapt from the aquatic to terrestrial environment, but little or nothing has been said about those more ambitious who tried a direct transition from water to air. Their brave efforts, besides extinction, have cost them the reprobation and silence of the scientific community which, as we know, always belonged to the first group.

There is a kind of minor beasts born from the leftovers of the creation, the oversights of the mythographers, the sunny noon of an insomniac draftsman, from ballpoint pens and notebooks. They are unfinished, barely visible, fuzzy creatures. They only acquire some reality in catalogs, in bureaucratic lists, in enumerations of things that almost exist.