Thursday, November 16, 2006
(8:22 PM) | Amish Lovelock:
Pufferfish Brain-Fucking Out Incident
There is a pufferfish restaurant just down the road from me which has a fish tank in the window were all the fish are supposed to be waiting patiently to be devowered by the well-paying punters. Only on this occasion as I passed the restaurant window this was not the case. The fish were not waiting patiently. They were all piling themselves up rear end first over the fish tank bubble-dispensing equipment thingy and I am sure, infact there is no doubt about it, this was entirely to do with pleasure. Those little fishies looked as if they were in absolute ecstasy. This reminded me of that Zizek anecdote about the hamster getting his brain fucked out. After careful consideration I am now absolutely positive that all the pufferfish in the tank down my road were getting their brains fucked out. This makes me wonder if the real point of the anecdote is that all of the worldly creatures around us are, when it comes to the crunch, just human, all too human.
