About fish  

“Zakhar Pavlovich knew a man, a fisherman from Lake Mutevo, who asked many people about death and pined from his curiosity; this fisherman loved fish most of all, not as food, but as a special being who probably knows the secret of death. He showed the eyes of dead fish to Zakhar Pavlovich and said: ‘Look — wisdom. The fish stands between life and death, that’s why it is mute and looks without expression; after all, the heifer thinks, but the fish does not — she already knows everything.’

Contemplating the lake for years, the fisherman thought all about the same thing — about the interest of death. … A year later, the fisherman could not stand it and rushed from the boat into the lake, tying his legs with a rope so as not to accidentally swim. Secretly, he did not believe in death at all, but most importantly, he wanted to see what was there: maybe it was much more interesting than living in a village or on the shore of a lake; he saw death as another province, which is located under the sky, as if at the bottom of cool water, and it attracted him.”

A. Platonov “Chevengur” 

Since ancient times, it has been believed that pisces has absolute knowledge about life and death, but is silent. The fish lives in the water, and reflecting the water with thousands of its scales, it merges with it, dissolves. Becoming one with its environment, a fish cannot die.

Can a person find out the secret that a fish owns? There is an insurmountable distance between man and animal in the form of the absence of a common language. There is also an invisible barrier between man and fish, separating water from land. In this case, fishing and eating fish becomes a means of overcoming the distance and gives a person the opportunity to learn the secret that the fish owns.