Friday, February 18, 2005

The Fish Speaks in Mysterious Ways

For some reason the voice of the fish has been echoing through my head today connecting two experienced fish-followers. The following is the result of that echo:

Monty Python may not be the originators of the fish, but they definitely do it well... they fill me with warm goo. If you don't know who or what I am talking about then you should definitely find the fish:

STRANGE MAN:
I wonder where that fish has gone.
STRANGE WOMAN:
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
STRANGE MAN:
And it went wherever I did go.


On to the other, and perhaps stranger of the two experienced fish-followers:

Maurits Cornelis Escher, better known as M.C. Escher, followed his own fish from June of 1898 until his death in March of 1972. My favorite Escher is called Reptiles, and through they are not fish, they often eat fish, so they too, are experienced fish-followers. Escher is probably best known for his impossible structures, though his work in geometric symmetry is really fish-quality:


"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"
-from Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

(Ok, maybe three...)

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