đż(under)water
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
â Arthur C. Clarke
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đż(under)water
The very same qualities that have made the âdomestic fishesâ famous in China have made them infamous in the United States. A well-fed grass carp can weigh more than eighty pounds. In a single day it can eat almost half of its body weight, and it lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time. Bigheads can, on occasion, weigh as much as a hundred
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Song of the sea
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âwhether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goalâ
corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence
The Raw Shark Texts (Canons)
Maybe the real value of leaving your pond for the ocean is to access scale.
For years, I had a selfish lens on the fish in the pond metaphor. I thought about how I couldâve stayed the smartest fish in my pond if I had remained in my pond. I debated and discussed the advantages of being a small fish in a large pond - how it widened my horizons and
... See moreThough people often talk about Asian carp as if it were a single species, the term is a catchall for four fish. All four are native to China, where theyâre referred to collectively as ćć€§ćź¶é±Œ, a phrase that translates into English roughly as the âfour famous domestic fishes.â The Chinese raise the famous four together in ponds and have been doing so
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