Date:         Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:30:31 EST
From: "mr. nowhere man..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      FILLER: Writers POLL: We All Live In A Yellow...

and our friends are here below...

Analogously, similarly, and even metaphorically, consider the richness
of the seas.  Tropical, frozen wastes, Titanic and the iceberg,
snorkeling, scuba, and submarines...  strange anemones, fish
floundering along, and the octopus, the squid, the ray and others, all
there...

Now, while we're feeling nautical, what are you?

        1.  a fish (which one?)
        2.  a piece of plankton?
        3.  seaweed?
        4.  coral reef?
        5.  a meandering current
        6.  flotsam and jetsom
        7.  something else...
        8.  Oh, what about the whales, and seals, and little sharks
and... well, there's a whole seascape for you...

Fill in the crabs, the sand, the riptides and gentle stroke, stroke,
stroke of the waves...

Under the moonlight?  In the turmoil at the edge of the storm?
Floating lazily under warm suns?

Push that trope a bit, work it...why are you a hermit crab, stuck in a
soft drink can?  And what about the rest of us--where are we in your
salty dreamscape?

Go ahead, enjoy the deeps and the shallows.
tink