They crammed the tank in Ray Kendall’s lobster pound, crawling over each other, their claws pegged shut so that they wielded them underwater like ineffective clubs. Homer knew he had seen a good reason for learning how to swim. If one ever fell in the sea, one wouldn’t want to fall to the bottom where these creatures lived. It was some while before Homer learned that the lobsters did not cover the ocean’s floor in such density as they occupied the tank. The first question that leaped to his mind did not concern how a lobster ate or how it multiplied—but why it lived at all. “There’s got to be
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