Randy Rhody

“The shore was an idyll for the inhabitants of America’s largest cities, all of which except Chicago were on the East Coast—New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia

“The shore was an idyll for the inhabitants of America’s largest cities, all of which except Chicago were on the East Coast—New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.”

“Just as a man was getting used to a few things—macadam, alarm clocks, elevators, unconscious thoughts, evolution from apes, telephones, pizza, frank talk about sex, big cities, mass magazines, movies, “the problem of the young,” the first concrete baseball “park,” the death of God—the scientists announced that time and space were illusions.”

“On the shark, the denticles were like razor-sharp sandpaper. A man who brushed against them would be instantly bloodied.” (39-40)
“Most of its brain is given over to enormous olfactory lobes… It can smell prey a quarter-mile away.” (69)
“As the shark swam, tiny organs, distributed all along its body, constantly “tasted” the chemical composition and salinity of the ocean water.” (116-7)
“Invisible lateral lines running down the length of its body recorded changing water pressure… As it moved, it read the earth’s magnetic field—or the electricity generated by ocean currents…” (132)
“A shark is even capable of responding to concentrations of fish extract of one part in ten billion.” (133)