Don't say you weren't warned.

[strange_complex]

So, the noble whale of London town is dead. What's more, a dead porpoise was found yesterday on the shore at Putney (I can't seem to find an online source for this Important News Item, but I assure you it's true - I saw pictures yesterday as part of Sky News' continuous live whale coverage).

In summary, dead and dying marine mammals are hurling themselves at our shores. You know what Cassius Dio would say. Get out of the stock market - now!

The next stage, apparently, is for experts to examine the body to ascertain the cause of death. I do hope they will pay special attention to the liver, since everyone knows that's where the gods most like to leave their messages to humanity.

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[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks for the thought anyway! It sounds like a really cool doll.

I don't think the whale was actually injured in any external sense. It seems just to have been very stressed out, and had been beaching itself on the edges of the Thames several times during the course of Friday. We'll have to wait for the postmortem results to see if it was ill, had some kind of internal injury, or was simply lost and distressed.