A snake skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only vestigial remnants of the limbs.
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“Theres a snake lurking in the grass.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (7019 B.C.)
“The bone-frame was made for
no such shock knit within terror,
yet the skeleton stood up to it:
the flesh? it was melted away,
the heart burnt out, dead ember,
tendons, muscles shattered, outer husk dismembered....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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