Three carved theatrical masks in black, charcoal and pale grey show different degrees of frowning against slate.

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Last Chance To See · 1990

Douglas Adams

They like their meat bad and smelly. We don't like our meat like that and tend to be leery of things that do. I was definitely leery of these lizards.

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The narrator contrasts human distaste for bad-smelling meat with the lizards’ preference for it and says that made them wary of the animals. The line explains the stated unease rather than establishing a general fact about all lizards.

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