Beyond the Senses

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what sounds do bats, with their velvet fur and eyeteeth gleaming
in the night, hear among sorceries and pitches of insect screams?

what is it like to see through multiple lenses of the spider, like heated neon paintings in a virtual maze of wire-framed pixilated web sites?

how does the snake bridge the senses of taste and smell, periodically testing the air with its tweezers tongue and poking his fork into his next meal?

and of the shark we do not know the extent to which he feels the waves of prey ducking in every direction to avoid the layered depths of triangled, one-way teeth.

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