Or an alligator – for I never really knew them very well. I was neither a zoologist nor a biologist, but I had no doubt that such a mass of animals in only a few square kilometers would soon – with or without warlike exhortations – lead to a real massacre. XXX In the other there was a sort of yellowish porridge also emptying into a trough, the shape of which reminded me unpleasantly of a trough. I got a better look at the woman. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Beneath me – as under the lion, for that matter – was golden sand, and when I looked up, a few meters away from us I saw the blue water of a lake from which a crocodile was sleepily poking
