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" With his back turned on the life-giving sea, he eventually sets off waddling toward the mountains of the interior. There’s more disturbing footage from polar regions, but it’s the implications that needle at me. The penguin’s journey is certain death. Were they to catch him and bring him back, the biologist explains, he would only head for the mountains again. It sounds like the voice of experience, as if they’ve tried and failed. The penguins refuse to be saved. "

Ellen Datlow , Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles


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Ellen Datlow quote : With his back turned on the life-giving sea, he eventually sets off waddling toward the mountains of the interior. There’s more disturbing footage from polar regions, but it’s the implications that needle at me. The penguin’s journey is certain death. Were they to catch him and bring him back, the biologist explains, he would only head for the mountains again. It sounds like the voice of experience, as if they’ve tried and failed. The penguins refuse to be saved.