Slouching Towards Bantry

A journey is a hallucination. -- Flann O'Brien

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The Enlightment of Sea Gulls

When you live with a fisherman, you eat seafood: fresh haddock, frozen mackerel, Bantry Bay mussels. The mackerel came from Michael "Mitey" McNally's freezer. He caught the fish last fall in the small bay in front of his house. The mackerel congregate there during that time of the year, preparing to swim out into the deep. The fisherman knows when they've arrived because of the hungry gulls who follow the school of fish.

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