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“On joining the aquarium community we all agreed to put aside our carnivorous ways to live off Professor Brown’s fish food. Every one of us agreed! If we start to eat each other, what kind of life would that be?”

Book:FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

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“What Roop says is correct. That thermometer hasn’t worked in years.” Sanger paused, looking around for Hansom before continuing. Not seeing the goatfish, he proceeded confidently, “Actually, I daresay my own studies have found the instrument to be so imprecise that it is my professional opinion that the temperature is just as likely to be going down as to be going up!”

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Book:FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

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“Oh my God!” exclaimed Jessie the turtle, who alone immediately saw what the good doctor would say next. “And I am sad to say, my friends," concluded Doc Hansom the goatfish, "if the caulking seal breaks before the professor returns, the aquarium will likely drain and we will all die.”

Science Climate Change Public Policy Fish Misinformation Allegory Fable Aquarium

Book:FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

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“It may be," Doc Hansom the goatfish concluded, "that it is already too late.”

Science Climate Change Public Policy Fish Misinformation Allegory Fable Aquarium

Book:FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times

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“Overhead, raindrops land on the skylight, backlit by glare from the security light at the old ferry dock next door. Silver droplets race down the glass, shimmering ribbons under the fogbound sky. It’s been a dreadful June, as everyone keeps saying. The gray weather doesn’t bother Tova”

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Book:Remarkably Bright Creatures

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“There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.”

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Book:Blow-Up and Other Stories

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“I’m just going to sit here. With my back turned. And my ears flat. Aggressively not caring.”

Cats Not Caring Aggressively

Book:Everything's Coming Up Beatrix!: A Breaking Cat News Adventure

Source: Everything's Coming Up Beatrix!: A Breaking Cat News Adventure

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