🚿(under)water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke

collection inspired by sharks 🦈

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.

Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence

The Raw Shark Texts (Canons)

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

Roger's Bacon • Ideas Are Alive and You Are Dead

Do sharks taste their food?

Yes, sharks have small bumps in their mouths that contain numerous taste buds. So, they do taste their food and will reject it if it doesn’t meet their standards (which is why great whites are known to bite humans but not typically eat them).

Paul Richards • What Do Sharks Eat?

Part of our job, then, as parents, is to teach our kids to deal with the impermanence of these connections. When Katie and I got our kids their first pet, a brilliantly purple betta fish, we viewed it as being a lesson in death and loss (bettas only live a few years) as much as a lesson in caretaking.

Steven Rinella • Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature

We came from the ocean, and we only survive by carrying salt water with us all our lives—in our blood, in our cells. The sea is our true home. This is why we find the shore so calming: we stand where the waves break, like exiles returning home. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think

Ray Nayler • The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel

In China the symbol in the center is also known as Tai Chi, the symbol for the two fundamental principles, the positive and the negative, the yang and the yin that are held to lie at the root of all phenomena in the world. The Chinese character for the word yang looks like a fish; it represents the light side, and means the southern or bright side