Like a Bulrush

Or the spike

of a channel marker or the

moon, he superintended the demolition of his image in

the water by the wind; he did not strike

 

them at the

time as being different from

any other inhabitant of the water; it was as if he

were a seal in the combined livery

 

of bird plus

snake; it was as if he knew that

the penguins were not fish and as if in their bat blindness, they did not

realize that he was amphibious.