Distantly Related To Shrimps

Gaius and Dries are riding their bikes to the airport.

Terence and baby B-B are inside Dries' back pack.

On the way, Gaius and Dries exchange information on shrimp related subjects.

Gaius: So, you have an interest in vision and colour?

Dries: Mm, yes and no.

Gaius: What do you mean by that exactly?

Dries: It's this bicycle. Did Schopenhauer have such an interest?

Gaius: I believe he did. He was friendly with Goethe. Goethe encouraged him to write "On Vision and Colours".

Dries: That explains it then. For this bicycle, if I may speak freely, believes that colour is subjective, existing solely in the spectator's retina.

( Terence, inside the orange back pack: What about tomato sauce colour? That doesn't.

Baby B-B, also inside the orange back pack: No, that's not what it's for.

Terence: What what's for?

Baby B-B: A retina. Retinas are like magnets. They tell you where to go.

Terence: Mine don't. You're lucky.

Baby B-B: Mine don't either. Mango told me. That's how she got here.

Terence: Was Mango a parrot?

Baby B-B: Yes. A gold and blue parrot. She has Mag-R, in her retinas.

Terence: Like GPS?

Baby B-B: No, it's a protein. )

Gaius: So much for vision and colour. What do you know about shrimps?

Dries: Oh plenty. For instance in Belgium, in Oostduinkirke, old men still go shrimp fishing on horseback. It's a most ancient practice.

Gaius: How fascinating. Shrimp fishing on horseback. How does that work?

Dries: They use large Brabant draught horses, with wooden saddles. They ride into the sea up to the top of the legs of the horses, dragging shrimp nets behind them. They wear yellow rain slickers, tall rubber boots and sou'westers  and they usually get a good catch.

Gaius: That makes my heart glad. And do Belgians enjoy eating shrimps?

Dries: Sure they do. Our shrimp croquettes are the best. I could eat one right now.

Terence: Are we there yet?

They are. Here is the airport already.

Time flies when you exchange information on shrimp related subjects.........