Methusalem might be half an hour in telling what o'clock
it was: but as for us postdiluvians, we ought to do everything
in haste; and in our speeches, as well as actions, remember
that our time is short.
-- Sir Richard Steele
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....
