Scale

The scale of things fascinates us. We usually relate the true size of something to our own human scale, but in what way does the siren measure scale? Tiny diatoms drift through the oceans like wandering stars, as the stars as they drift through the darkness above are made tiny only by distance. And the smaller fish is only small in relation to the larger fish, although it is at least as large as the siren herself. But look carefully: inside the body of the larger fish is a second smaller one - the remains of its last meal. Scale, it seems, is not only comparative and relative: it is digestible as well.