- Fish Story
* In Finnish the term fish-story means a story about fishing, but also refers to an exaggerated narrative, a bit like a tall tale.
Sarjakuva
Kalajuttu
- I haven't dived like this in years
- but everything comes back to me soon enough. I learn how to breathe again
- and I dive like I used to.
- I travel, looking at the lake
- the sun's beams around me, on my skin
- I listen to my steady breathing,
- enjoying the weightlessness and lonely freedom.
- And the deeper I dive, more memories surface from my childhood, of days spent in the water.
- I find buried memories as the water opens itself up to me
- I remember how much I loved swimming
- how deep I could dive.
- It's following me!
- We circle each other
- The fish looks at me with one eye
and then with the other
- I remember
- how I used to capture little fish in a glass jar to look at them
- strange, small living things
- And also how I was taught to fish
- how those glittering, struggling creatures were pulled out of the water
- how they were chopped up, fried and eaten, destroying all the wonder in them.
- What do you mean, allergic to fish?
- Are you gonna start being picky now about everything?
- Has someone said that fish taste bad?
- Eat up!
- But I never did
- And now, years later..
- I hear my steady breathing -- feel my weightlessness in the water
- and this freedom does not feel lonely anymore.
Kalajuttu
Satuin mökillä snorkkeloimaan ja se oli niin mukavaa, että tein aiheesta tarinan. Suunnittelin ja mietin tätä pitkään ja piirsin sit parissa päivässä kaiken puhtaaksi. Yhdistelen taas faktaa ja fiktiota miten sattuu. Tuntuu että tarinanluomistekniikkana se toimii kaikkein parhaiten. Vaikkakin sit aiheuttaa niitä ongelmia, että ihmiset ottaa lopputulokset totuuksina kun ei toteuta semmoisia manöövereitä mitkä saa ajattelemaan että kyseessä ei oo todellisuus ("olipa kerran" tyyppiset jutut ja yksiulotteiset hahmot ja tarinan rakenteet).
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