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ZOOMORPHIC FLOTSAM f ac e s a n d figu re s N CENT RI E R S C CO fro m th e be ac h R MI N DE MICHAEL BLAHA

PAREIDOLIA the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus usually visual so that one sees an object pattern or meaning where there is none like seeing the man in the moon

CRYPTID creatures that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild but are not believed to exist by mainstream science some exist on the beach as driftwood

ARUNDO DONAX RHIZOME a tall perennial cane or reed like grass with fleshy almost bulbous creeping root stocks that form compact masses native to india considered invasive along california waterways

MUDLARK someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in london during the 18th and 19th centuries

NOMEN DUBIUM a taxonomic name that cannot be assigned with certainty to any taxonomic group because the description is insufficient for identification and the original specimens no longer exist

E R S C CO CENT RI N R MI N DE P RO D U C E D I N A N E D I T I O N L I M I T E D TO 1 0 0 CO P I E S THIS IS COPY NO MICHAEL BLAHA BOOK DESIGN BY C O L L A B O R AT I O N PRINTED ON JOHN WITH A R C H I VA L BALKWILL ILENE IN S E G A LOV E QUALITY PA P E R