Self-Taught Homework #9: I get clammy & scared of shellfish

Shellfish made you think of Plato’s ideas of forms.

You know, absolutely intolerable and pretentious. You can circle back to that.

Everything about a shellfish makes them extraterrestrial, aliens of an underwater realm that evolves their features to a world we as mammals can’t survive. While a cow, a pig, a chicken, even a lizard can embody signs of life and their eyes in lock with your own, shellfish are as alive as a houseplant.

Shellfish have existed in layers of your life since you were a ch...