I read The Pain comics regularly. This week, in his “artists statement”, he includes a nice little thought:
she had a fish who lived in a little fishbowl on her wiindowsill. The fish could see vague, refracted shapes sliding about outside the bowl. Once a day, fish food would rain down from the surface like mannna from Heaven. These were pretty much the sum total of facts Sandi’s fish could observe about the universe. She figured her fish had about as much chance of deducing that it was being kept in an apartment in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States of America on the planet Earth, and of gaining insight into Sandi’s personality, as we do of ever understanding our true place in the universe or the mind of God.
That’s pretty much how I see things these days.
Additionally, all must hail Rasputin the escape rat who swam nearly half a kilometer over open ocean to elude capture, and traded his life in the end to dine on penguin. Perhaps the first rat to do so.
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