"Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept
the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what
we are afraid to give tongue to.”
-Richard Flanagan
Images:
(1) Pierre Belon, Monk Fish from Harvard University Library’s copy of ‘De Aquatilibus’
(2) Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt - كتاب عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات) by Zakarīyā’ ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī, originally published in 1283.