Oh fish!

An excerpt from Lynne Truss' hilarious book "Making the Cat Laugh":

Fish have rights you know.

Personally, I could never love a fish. It is something to do with their short memories. Call me anthropocentric, but I refuse to lavish affection on a creature that, every few seconds, can't remember where it's seen you before.

All aquarium owners will gladly tell you that the extremely short memory span of the fish is its great salvation in captivity, because while it endlesly circles its tank it supposedly thinks, "Well, this is interesting; mmm, this is interesting; gosh, this is interesting; corks, this is interesting."

But to me, that retention problem is a stumbling block to sympathy, and I doubt I shall ever match on parliament with our amnesiac aquatic friends.

"What do we want?", we humans would shout. And the fish would give us that blankly panicky look, as if to say, "How do you mean?"

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