“What is all this then?”
“What… do you mean?”
“Yes, precisely. Yet it is far worse than that.”
“Almost absolutely worse.”
“Yes, and now what?”
“You’ve ably nailed it, but none will notice.”
“It’s true; they put on a stone suit before swimming.”
“No less do we.”
“No. Less.”

— a fragment overheard betwixt the grasses