<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0017 The Philosophical Goldfish</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doctors’ waiting rooms. <br>Dentists’ waiting rooms.<br>Goldfish etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What have goldfish done, <br>what fishy business have they been up to<br>in the murky underworld of the unpoliced, <br>to be incarcerated in public view<br>of the apprehensive, the fearful, <br>the distressed out of mind, those bearing<br>all the myriad aches and pains<br>that flesh is heir to? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking up from the Horse and Hound Gazette<br>which I noticed I was holding upside down<br>my eye was caught – or did he, or she, catch mine first? -<br>as if it heard my thoughts about its welfare</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It swam towards me, pressed its mouth against the glass<br>in perfect O-shape as if singing, <br>or perhaps sounding some universal Om<br>(the final consonant difficult to catch for the dry-eared) <br>and it seemed to wish to communicate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sensed it was not a cry for help (and indeed, <br>what help could have offered, without<br>a plastic bag and in view of others who still<br>believed me sane? No, it seemed<br>peaceful but chatty; even helpfully inclined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I got up, walked discreetly as if calmly passing time<br>and – almost tempted to kiss the glass, but instead<br>simply mouthing a friendly mwaa –<br>and though my lip-reading isn’t all it could be, <br>I believe I identified this message: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘As above, so below; <br>as without, so within’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes one’s view of Creation<br>seems to have been hitherto<br>singularly unimaginative</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460454" data-title="0017 The Philosophical Goldfish de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Doctors’ waiting rooms. Dentists’ waiting rooms. Goldfish etc. What have goldfish done, what fishy business have they been up to in the murky underworld of the unpoliced, to be incarcerated in public view of the apprehensive, the fearful, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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