"For if the world is like a dark jungle and a garden of delight for all wild hunters, it strikes me even more, and so I prefer to think of it, as an abysmal, rich sea--a sea full of colorful fish and crabs, which even gods might covet, that for their sakes they would wish to become fishermen and net-throwers, so rich is the world in queer things, great and small. Especially the human world, the human sea: that is where I now cast my golden fishing rod and say: Open up, you human abyss!"
That's Friedrich Nietzsche, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part Four.
And that is what Richard and I are doing now, fishing in the depths. We'll be back with you in several weeks.
As 2012 dawns, we wish you a year of wild hunting and fruitful fishing!
