Two fish met in a stream.
"How've you been?" one asks the other.
"You won't believe what happened to me. I had a close one -- a truly amazing
experience. I saw a tasty tidbit floating overhead so I snapped it up. The next thing
I know, I'm in this whole other world, a piece of hard, shiny stuff hooked in my
mouth, hanging on a string, and I can't breath! I'm suffocating! Then this giant
something grabs me, takes the hard shiny thing out of my mouth, and throws me back
in the water."
"Water? What water? What are you talking about?" asks the other fish.
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Source: modified from a story in the Zen tradition.