"You just keep your eyes open for any bananafish. This is a perfect day for bananafish."
"I don't see any," Sybil said.
"That's understandable. Their habits are very peculiar." He kept pushing the float. The water was not quite up to his chest. "They lead a very tragic life," he said, "You know what they do, Sybil?"
She shook her head.
"Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas. [...] Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door."
From "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger
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