Thalatte
"You run out of note-cards before you run out of different parts to classify, and after a while you can't tell the difference between the 'before' and 'after' piles. You'll get as much out of this beast by organising a game of footy with what's left."[1]
Thalatte are biological peculiarities that roam the depths of the Unterzee. Their anatomy is utterly incomprehensible: they possesses a beaked mouth, a "double handful of maxillipeds," an acidic "outermost eyesocket", a "liver-brain," a toothy swim bladder, and an uncountable number of other mismatched organs.[2][3] To hunt prey, they draw them close with their hooked sucker-maws and barrage them with globs of "vile fluid."[2][4]
Thalatte meat can be edible but is extremely hard to prepare. Organs tend to twitch and move long after death,[5] and some bits are so foul that eating them can drive a person to suicide.[6] Needless to say, rendering Thalatte meat requires both a weak gag reflex[7] and the patience for a nine-hour-long boil.[8]
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