"See that one," she continued. "Can you see that his colors are slightly different than the others?"
"Now that you've said it, yeah, I do see it. He looks a little bit different than the other three fish."
"You damn right he does!" she laughed, "and those fish know it too, and that's why they've been attacking him all day long."
"Oh, man."
"Yeah, I have to do something about this. Soon as my shift is over, I'll tell them to get that fish out of here. I don't want to see him dead."
"It's great you noticed that."
"How can I not notice it? I stand right here all day!"
Indifferent to pictures on walls, that lady was sensitive to many other things and realms, and the fish drama she saw was, to her, an all-too-familiar allegory. Most of us, though, can only bend our neck a certain way, so will only notice what we're determined to see.
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