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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Jan 4 04: second helping
The Carp Story is available online again at the Times, because it was one of the Times’ most e-mailed stories of the year. I don’t know for how long it’ll be available. If you haven’t read it, then you should—you have to register, but it’s free and you don’t have to actually provide any true information about yourself. And besides, I’m linking to stuff on that site all the time and you might as well get it over with.
Anyway, the tale runs that a carp about to be butchered at a Hasidic fishmonger’s in Rockland County began loudly prophesying in Hebrew. Was it a hoax? Who can say? I kind of hope not—I think the world needs more aggressive weirdness in this vein. Well, the ‘end of the world is nigh’ part I could do without, I suppose. But definitely more talking fish.
My favorite part of the story is that eventually they butchered the carp and sold it for gefilte fish. Now that’s an ending.