The narrator begins by asking what's going on with the dead fish. It's obvious that he's looking at something, but he doesn't know what it is. The narrator says that he can tell that it's not just a dead fish, but a human being looking at the same thing. He points out that humans can't look at dead animals because they're looking at another dimension, but they can look at a dead animal's eyes to see if there's something else going on in the world besides the dead animal. He also says that looking at dead animal eyes is like looking at a ghost, because the dead animals are looking at things that aren't there, like death, and that's what we're supposed to be looking at. He says that if we could scientifically prove that the dead are dead, then we'd be able to look at their eyes and see things that are beyond our control, like what happens after death, or what happens to the soul after death. He adds that he hates asking for advice, because he'd rather put the burden of someone else's opinion on someone else than ask for advice himself. He wonders if the narrator could control the narrator's curiosity by imagining that someone is unsettled by the sight of the dead, but not by the way the narrator looks at the dead. He thinks that would be just another way to describe curiosity, and he wonders if he could even control what the narrator would think about the dead man's sight. He asks the narrator to show him the college brochures he gave him, and the narrator says he'll have to scratch them later. He