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October 25, 2003
parrot fish panic

There is a pet store just two blocks or so away from here, the basement filled with a little zoo. I love to visit their basement... as I did today...
A parrot at the entrance to the basement keept saying "hello" in the voices of several very friendly old ladies. Some mini crickets trapped in the terrarium with three really cute looking little lizards, committed suicide in a petri dish filled with water. A turtle was just teasing itself with the idea that it could possibly overcome the 4 inch wooden barrier of its sand filled box and walk towards the darkness of the relatively hot room.
The are aquariums everywhere, large salt water tanks with pretty neurotic fish. Had nemo landed in one of these mini-worlds, his story would have probably been a memoir containing thousands of pages. Quite obviously lot happens in these tanks, their inhabitants being healthy, active, insane fish.
One of the animals that especially caught my attention, was this yellowish parrot fish. He was a pretty crazy guy with one really dangerous looking, white, beak-like tooth. (A bit as if the fish were a parrot in a fish costume.) The animal kept pacing inside of the tank. I managed to catch just a few glimpses of the tail-fin here, maybe a swoosh of color here. What a wild child... (He was probably scared... I hope he will find a larger home soon...)

Comments

i hope so too... :( he does look scrd.

Posted by: k on October 25, 2003 11:45 PM

yeah... : \

Posted by: Witold Riedel on October 25, 2003 11:50 PM

ooh... :( maybe should I come to this store and buy this little guy and let him go in a lake or ocean... or will he freeze... and what about the other fishes........

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...... sending him some warm thoughts.............
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also, just wanted to say I am getting rid of most of my books.... and there are some i was thinking you might like... i have some nice essays on the city and, well, many other things.... i was going to let friend's take the bounty.... ..... ... .. . . .

Posted by: k on October 26, 2003 10:12 PM
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