On The Subject of Snails

This is a snail.

@_.


He is quite friendly.

Say hello, little snail!

@/'

Aw, isn't he cute?

Still - for all that - he is a snail in transition.

Transition! Conflict! Drama! The core of what we call narrative - plot!

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He is excited, you see.

@!

He is doing a dance!

!@!

He was sad, because of lost love. You couldn't see it, but when he said hello - little snail tears fell from each eye-stalk.

Tragic!

But he has just made a realization.

@/'\_/

His saxaphone can win back his lost love! Can and will - perhaps even - must!

~`~;`_
@_._/

Hear those aching, poignant chords projected from his snail-a-phone!

How could any snail resist such magic?

@/''\@

They cannot!

Yay, snails!

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