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If a Mantis Could Speak

If a Mantis Could Speak

Arden, Jd

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ISBN13: 9798264821523
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Imagine that, sharpened, and no larger than your thumb. I do not chase. I wait-head turning twice, sight folding the world into distances you don't see, forelegs cocked not as limbs but as death's trigger. Heat and shadow choose when I move; hunger is a ledger, not a grief. If I could speak, I'd hand you a different grammar of being: precise, impatient, economical.

This is my translation. A first-person mantis narrates vision, strike, thermals, hunger, and the grim bookkeeping that makes cannibalism a practical choice. Natural history and philosophy sit cheek by jowl with raw, sensory detail-seeing in three dimensions, the muscle click of a strike, the slow tradeoffs of sun and shade. Read this to feel a mind not like yours but intelligible on its own terms. If you want another species' interior life without human consolation, sit very still. I will not chase. I will wait.

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