I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

 

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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Life magazine (4 January 1963) attributed variant: I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

 

Edith Sitwell

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