It's the 23rd century. Barlow-62 space docking station. Mobysnail is working on his space opera/novel on telekinetic snails that have achieved intergalactic travel. In his journal/sketchbook, he takes notes on snails. Earth snails, circa 2022.

Among the notes on this journal page:

"... for the most part, slugs and snails can't go backwards." (Helen Scales, Spirals of Time)

"... the snail's two independent tentacle-noses give it a kind of telescopic sense of smell." (Elisabeth Tovey Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating)

A rendition of snail and Mt. Fuji to accompany haiku by Kobayashi Issa