Fairy tales have always fascinated me: fishermen and talking flounder, siblings wending their way through a shadowy forest, seven brothers transformed into ravens.
The talking Flounder, being both the evil daemon and the central consciousness of the piece, has a natural class interest in flounder's not being eaten, so there is a shortage of fish recipes in "The Flounder".
(I was tempted by a detailed description of how to make stewed tripe, but who in my gang would eat stewed tripe?) There is one nice moment, though, when the eternal talking Flounder, who "knew all the recipes that had been used for cooking his fellows," mentions simmering the fish with white wine and capers.
But those talks floundered as well, with the various national markets unable to agree on a common technology, much less on a merger.
Gordon Brown is playing it long, gambling that the Tory/Lib Dem talks will flounder and that Clegg will conclude that he is better off negotiating with Labour.
To these points, Gibbs largely floundered, sticking to the talking point that Obama had not changed tracks, favored looking forward not back, but would prosecute crimes when they were exposed.
The guerrillas quickly turned it into an armed protectorate and a coca-growing factory, and the peace talks have floundered.
Promises to remove even a handful of the checkpoints have gone largely unfulfilled, partly because local army commanders, who enjoy considerable autonomy and fear getting the rap if a suicide-bomber slips through, err on the side of caution.Meanwhile, the peace talks are floundering.
The two countries have no diplomatic relations, and previous attempts to hold talks have floundered because of the kidnapping issue along with North Korea's persistent demands for $10 billion or more in compensation for Japan's colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.Yet Japanese officials have recently sensed a change in North Korea.
But once he was home, Mr. Flounders, who advocates for euthanasia, talked to a television news crew about his purchase.
