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| 17 | 46 | It View more quotes about struggled">struggled briefly, then lay still. |
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| 17 | 43 | Their blunt, whitish heads protruded from the water, curious, each head oriented toward one or the other of the four lamps on the raft. |
| 17 | 44 | I knelt down on the raft, and, quickly, scooped, holding it, one of the lelts from the water. |
| 17 | 45 | It was enclosed in my hand. |
| 17 | 46 | It struggled briefly, then lay still. |
| 17 | 47 | The lelt is a small fish, long-bodied for its size, long-finned. |
| 17 | 48 | It commonly swims slowly, smoothly, conserving energy in the black, saline world encompassing its existence. |
| 17 | 49 | There is little to eat in that world; it is a liquid desert, almost barren, black, blind and cool. |