I was terrible at history. I could never see the point of learning what
people thought back when people were a lot stupider. For instance, the
ancient Phoenicians believed that the sun was carried across the sky on the
back of an enormous snake. So what? So they were idiots.
-- Dave Barry
So Richard and I decided to try to catch [the small shark].
With a great deal of strategy and effort and shouting, we managed to
maneuver the shark, over the course of about a half-hour, to a sort of
corner of the lagoon, so that it had no way to escape other than to
flop up onto the land and evolve....