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My parents weren't particularly protective, either. Once I picked a dead baby bird off the sidewalk and put it in my mouth, right in front of my mother & stepfather. But those ugly fish make me want to "run barfing." There are several reasons.
1) I'll tell you a little secret about product design. People like things that look like they'd feel nice coming out of their butts. This is why cars, sneakers, toothbrushes, office buildings, phones, electronic equipments, pens, eyewear, hi-performance outdoor grills, tape dispensers and furniture have all become inexorably sleeker and rounder (maybe with an occasional gnurl or tickler, but nothing too daunting) over the last 40 years or so. Some of those fish look quite a bit like they'd feel nice coming out of your butt, until you see the huge jaw full of crazy teeth. Have you ever read Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?
2) I got several throat infections every year when I was a child. This may be linked to eating dead baby birds off the ground, I dunno. On two separate occasions, I obtained an abcessed tonsil, which had to be lanced and drained with a big needle that the ER doctor poked into the back of my throat--repeatedly, to get out all the pus. Now, I never looked directly at one of these abcesses, but in my mind's throat's eye, they looked quite a lot like some of those deep sea fish.
3) Then there are the ones that look like the severed heads of Croats, discovered in a crawl-space beneath a government building. |
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