English to Russian Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

The differences between dogs and fish couldn't seem more profound. ... Dogs are here, padding mud-pawed through our living rooms, snoring under our desks. Fish are always in another element, silent and unsmiling, legless and dead-eyed. They were created, in the Bible, on a different day, and are thought of as an ***unflatteringly early stop*** in the evolutionary march toward the human.