1.
A
fast fish belongs to the party fast to it. (nearest to it)
2.
A
loose fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.
"...these
two laws touching Fast Fish and Loose-Fish will.on reflection be found in the
fundamentals of all human jurisprudence . . . what are the Rights of Man and
the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish?
What are all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a
Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader,
but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish too?"
Moby Dick
Herman MelvillePUBLISHED EXCERPTS OF "THE LOOSE FISH CHRONICLES"
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