he would exultantly snatch the screen from poor shrinking wretches, passionately hurry them to the summit of the mount of exposure, and there show them all naked, all false—poor living lies—the spawn of that horrid Truth which cannot be looked on unveiled.
It was the time at which the females, going to find suitable places in which to spawn, precede the males and make a great noise through the fresh water.
Individual fish can grow to up to 5m (16ft) in length and can live for up to 60 years, but will only spawn a few times during their life.
Every year, breeding-age salmon make their way from as far as Bass Strait to spawn in the south-western corner of the continent.
The company behind Snapchat, the disappearing message service headquartered a stone's thrown from Los Angeles' tawdry Venice Beach, has long revelled in its non-Silicon Valley vibe: more streetwise, less overtly techie, and out to spawn fun rather than change the world.
Because they also prefer to spawn and live in warmer waters, they do seasonally migrate from cooler subtropical locations closer to the equator as the seasons turn.
They have been placed on a list of possibly endangered species—meaning that if culling continues apace, their numbers will soon be depleted beyond their ability to sufficiently spawn replacements.
Second, as English spreads and is influenced by local languages, could it fragment, as Latin did into Italian and French – or might it survive but spawn new languages, as German did with Dutch and Swedish?
