It must have been two meters long, and it was, unmistakably, a human embryo at the age of two months, when you can already see the giant, truncated head bent far over, pressing the face, with its eyes still buried in the whitish, translucid flesh, against the thorax, and the stumpy limbs, with fingers and toes already formed, rising on either side of its trunk, like large Latimeria fish lost anachronistically within our oceans. It looked, furthermore, like precisely this kind of concrete animal, elastic and complete, a saturnine monster that lacked nothing and had no reason to evolve, the kind
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