Breams of the Sea-rabbit Fiend

Alternative title: Do androids bream of electric eels?

Another Kiwi took a long weekend off to go up north and see his Auntie Grizelda. It is a fraught journey through the wilderness where the pampas grass is rife, where the paths are often blocked at both ends by scrolls of stylised acanthus, which is why he is wearing the fancy hover-shoes. Also available in pony size.

But did AK say "Don't cook and eat the fish fillets in the reagent freezer for lunch, the ones labelled 'Biological Specimens K. bigibbus -- Toxic -- Protocol IV Containment"? DID HE BOGROLL.



Symptoms of Ichthyoallyeinotoxism include levitation, Zorbing, the opening of portals into alternative realities, and the dissociative manifestation of multiple personalities, all called Lucy.* Let us just say that not a great deal of work was accomplished in the course of Friday afternoon.

Here in the Antipodean Ocean, the brown chub Kyphosus bigibbus from Norfolk Island is the most popular dreamfish, but in Podean parts the sea bream Sarpa salpa and various species of the Sea-rabbit genus Siganidae are probably more often encountered.

The psychedelic properties evolved as a form of camouflage, like the texture-matching capability of flatfish, allowing dreamfish to conceal themselves in the waters that are under the world, among the shifting evanescent flux of archetypes in the human unconsciousness. Much in the manner of Klee goldfish.

There is a novel waiting to be written about the rigours and drama and loneliness of life as a dreamfisherman, following the shoals across the trackness ocean, far from land for months on end. No, Involution Ocean does not count. As for American reality-TV shows, DO NOT WANT.

Accurate depiction of Dream Machine

But dreamfish are not immune to their own hallucinatory toxins. With the help of the Riddled dream machine we can view their own dreams.

These turn out to be wish fulfillment in nature -- a role-reversed scenario in which dreamfish sink and consume entire fishing flotillas and celebrate these victories with ships tattooed on their sides. Meanwhile modelling their grimace on that of Dick Cheney.

Also they fantasise of chasing Ann Althouse.
* An ambulance was dispatched to the consequent scene, where the crew compared the situation to "a Lucy nation".