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1. In this 2002 book, author Felipe Fernández-Armesto posits that snails were the first creatures herded and bred for food by humans.
2. In Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Rosalind and Orlando discuss snails:
ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I
had as lief be wooed of a snail.
ORLANDO Of a snail?
ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he
carries his house on his head; a better jointure,
I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings
his destiny with him.
ORLANDO What's that?
ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be
beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in
his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.
What did a snail's horns signify to writers of Shakespeare's era?
3. To go out in search of snails is known as snailing.
4. "The further off from England, the nearer is to France
Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance."
These lines are from "The Lobster Quadrille" by which author?
5. Although this artist is more famous for 1910's "Dance" and "The Red Room (Harmony in Red)" from 1908, at the very end of his life this painter crafted "The Snail" from cut, torn and pasted paper arranged in a spiral pattern. Who created "The Snail" in 1953?
6. Which beloved television show featured an episode in which its wacky heroine memorably exclaimed, upon being served escargot in a Paris café, "Waiter! There are snails in this food!"
7. Patricia Highsmith's short story "The Snailwatcher" was made into a short film called "Breeding Space". Which of these better known movies was also based on Ms. Highsmith's work?
8. This 1979 collection of essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas was subtitled "More Notes of a Biology Watcher". What was its main title?
9. "The Connoisseuse of Slugs", a beautiful poem by Sharon Olds, employs slugs as symbols of what?
10. If you are a true snail lover (and really, why wouldn't you be?) you'll know the name of the TV show that introduced the world to these wonderful song lyrics.
Six Snails
Six tiny snails leaving six silver trails,
Six silver trails as shiny as nails,
Six shiny nails with six pointed tips,
Six silk sails on six sailing ships.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ships.
Well the six sailing ships on six spouting whales,
All got home to dinner long before the snails.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 snails.
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