This is much like a Greenich Village coffee table discussion expounding nonsense.

Nefarious - evil
Xanthein - yellow pigment
There's a story here about the picture, which is actually a ruined photograph.

Joe Esler and I were on a photo safari down along the Mississippi River on the muddy beach just before the High Bridge. It was dark. There was about 4 feet of muddy, sandy shore and there was a bank with roots and thick woods. I had just started a timed shot of the Cathedral with Aperature 18, Speed 15 and ISO 200 when something large started swimming parallel with the shore about 2 feet out along the shore.. Not sure what it was. It could have been a musk rat, or a beaver, or an allegator, or a serpent....not sure. When it came even with us, it changed course towards us. Anyway, this is the result of grabbing the tripod while it was still capturing and jumping into the woods.

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