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three fish
this is the story of the lake and the three fish that were in it,
one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent, and the third, stupid.
some fisherman came to the edge of the lake with nets. and the three fish saw them...
...the intelligent fish decided at once to to make the long, difficult trip to the ocean.
he thought, "i won't consult with these two on this. they will only weaken my resolve, because they love this place so. they call it home. and the ignorance will keep them here." and so the intelligent fish made its whole length a moving footprint and, like a deer the dogs chase, suffered greatly on its way, but finally made it to the edgeless safety of the sea...
...the half-intelligent fish thought, "my guide is gone. i should have gone with him, but i didn't, and now i've lost my chance to escape. i wish that i had gone with him." so the half-intelligent fish mourned the absence of his guide for a while, and then thought to himself, "what can i do to save myself from these men and their nets? perhaps if i pretend to be dead! i'll belly up on the surface and float like a weed floats, just giving myself totally to the water. to die before i die." so he did that and so he bobbed up and down, helpless, within the arm's reach of the fisherman. "look at this! the biggest fish of all is dead." one of the men lifted him up by the tail, spat on him, and threw him up on the ground he rolled over and over and slid secretly near the water, and then, back in...
...meanwhile, the third fish, the dumb one, was agitatedly jumping about, trying to escape with agility and cleverness. the net, of course, finally closed around him. and as he lay there in the terrible frying-pan, he thought, "i'll get out of this, i'll never live again in the limits of a lake. next time, next time the ocean! i'll make the infinite ocean my home. the infinite, my home."
Gre'sListeningTo: three fish
three fish
this is the story of the lake and the three fish that were in it,
one of them intelligent, another half-intelligent, and the third, stupid.
some fisherman came to the edge of the lake with nets. and the three fish saw them...
...the intelligent fish decided at once to to make the long, difficult trip to the ocean.
he thought, "i won't consult with these two on this. they will only weaken my resolve, because they love this place so. they call it home. and the ignorance will keep them here." and so the intelligent fish made its whole length a moving footprint and, like a deer the dogs chase, suffered greatly on its way, but finally made it to the edgeless safety of the sea...
...the half-intelligent fish thought, "my guide is gone. i should have gone with him, but i didn't, and now i've lost my chance to escape. i wish that i had gone with him." so the half-intelligent fish mourned the absence of his guide for a while, and then thought to himself, "what can i do to save myself from these men and their nets? perhaps if i pretend to be dead! i'll belly up on the surface and float like a weed floats, just giving myself totally to the water. to die before i die." so he did that and so he bobbed up and down, helpless, within the arm's reach of the fisherman. "look at this! the biggest fish of all is dead." one of the men lifted him up by the tail, spat on him, and threw him up on the ground he rolled over and over and slid secretly near the water, and then, back in...
...meanwhile, the third fish, the dumb one, was agitatedly jumping about, trying to escape with agility and cleverness. the net, of course, finally closed around him. and as he lay there in the terrible frying-pan, he thought, "i'll get out of this, i'll never live again in the limits of a lake. next time, next time the ocean! i'll make the infinite ocean my home. the infinite, my home."
Gre'sListeningTo: three fish