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amphibians o f the bayou. In their joining, they “sprawl with the swamp,” “wrestle
the planet” (200), and move to the beat of “the pulse within the world, within us”
(201), a pulse that “shudders with life . . . and death” (202). In this culminating
moment, a recapitulation of his own transformation from man to something more,
Swamp Thing and Abby perceive the “strands” of the world at their most elemental
levels, with a particularity unavailable to male reason and scientific measurement.
All because they are willing to learn that they “are one creature . . . and all that
there is . . . is in us” (200). Imagine Batman or Super