Naked Lunch?
“When the tide is in, the worm slides up to the chimney of its burrow and exudes a sticky mucous net from a ring of glands… these mucous nets, looking like decaying jellyfish, draped around the burrow entrance. The worm continues to secrete as it slips lower into the burrow, generating a slime-net that stretches from the chimney to the worm’s mouth. Using contractions … the worm sucks plankton, bacteria, and other bits into this net. …the worm slurps it all back into its mouth, taking in the particles it wants to eat and discarding the rest into the tunnel.”
William Burroughs should have been a science writer.
