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| 27 Self-Recognition of the Fish [after Sandra Ramos] Unsettled by the semi-darkness of the undersea night, the velodrome and stadium immense against the backspin of the phrases indistinct now as immersed by the reef-cradle undertow, and marveled by these monuments in place of the invertebrate culture unique to saltwater, rewarded as we were with a glimpse into a landscape few of us will ever know, even with these spastic infant limbs, these urges you want to go away, modes of guiding us down a current where—damsels, triggers, lion fish—high quantities of oxygen help to break down the organic molecules into simpler forms for chemical filtration removal, while maintaining an environment conducive to the culturing of large populations of aerobic bacteria in reference to the future of the continent, or so he says, the fundamental problem now being not one of self-recognition, not here or elsewhere, but of union, the duty to combat isolation despite the economic and social difficulties—or so we’re convinced, of health and energy for the increasingly complex functions of the state where women will comprise nearly sixty percent of the country’s technical force, hold jobs, earn good salaries, and be free and less dependent on men than in a past where news of each house they built was received here as good news, made us proud because we knew the hardships they faced in the construction, truly very difficult for us all, the town we had intended to build there, a project of great social benefit to the entire population for whom pleasure is derived in being spoon-fed and harmless so that one may lead a normal life through the looking glass of containment and aquatic environments—sagittaria, cabomba, vallisneria—now that, to counter silicates producing micro-algae growth and heavy-metals causing invertebrate melt-down, traditional methods will be applied, like those throughout history in cases of highly dangerous diseases, namely the quarantine of those infected, as in the case of cholera, leprosy, and so on, he added, meaning a slow death, a couple of pumps to hum and gurgle in trying to simulate an analogous system of life for those of us inhabitants still left. ...

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