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It’s a bit of the British absurdism à la Monty Python. Their humor is really similar.

It’s a fish because, well, why wouldn’t a fish that eats brainwaves want to live in your ear? It could have been a spider, or a small bug, or a hermit crab... but who would want one of those in there? A fish though... it is such a random concept that somehow it can be accepted, simply because we didn’t see it coming.



I actually love Monty Python. It may be that I expect a different story-telling in a SciFi setting.




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