rivers and lakes

« The water bugs were so small I practically had to lay my vision like a drowned orange on the mud puddle. There is a romance about fruit floating outside on the water, about apples and pears in rivers and lakes. For the first minute or so, I saw nothing, and then slowly the water bugs came into being. »

Richard Brautigan, ‘The cabinet of Doctor Caligari’, in Trout Fishing in America, 1972