I was very curious and I found myself asking, "Hello frog, do you live in this toilet bowl?"
"Yes," he croaked as he lifted his stout head to look at me, "I certainly do."
"How then," I asked before I could stop to think, "will anybody use this toilet? I mean, do they flush? or what?"
The frog laughed at me before replying, "Silly person with silly questions. I shall not answer you and leave you to wonder."
It is quite true, I thought to myself, that I certainly do not need to know the answer to whether people use or flush this toilet bowl with a frog living in it, all of which is in a dream. This frog is quite sensible indeed.
So, I said to him, "Okay, frog. Then please tell me something interesting, something for me to remember you by."
The frog laughed again and replied," Silly person with silly questions, I know of nothing interesting to tell. For if I may remind you, I am a frog living in a toilet bowl after all. You shall remember me for precisely who I am: a frog living in a toilet bowl after all."
It is quite true, I thought to myself, that he is a frog living in a toilet bowl after all. Then, I laughed and thought this frog quite sensible indeed.
So, I said to him," Okay, frog. It is true. But at the very least, please allow me to take a picture of you? So that I can better remember you for precisely who you are."
The frog laughed again and replied with what was, I suspect, genuine interest, "Silly person, if you can take a picture of me, sure, go ahead. But how will you take a picture of me? I am in a dream!"
To this it was my turn to I laugh before I replied, "Silly frog, you are a frog living in a toilet bowl after all. Of course I can take a picture of you. We are in a dream."
The frog thought and smiled and nodded and graciously agreed to my taking of this picture of him.
