A brass padlock sits beside two red tin cans joined by a loop of string on a grey-brown surface.

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Richard

Secrets are no good when you can’t repeat them. Fishism.

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Our interpretation.

The speaker measures a secret's value by whether it can be repeated, neatly contradicting the usual purpose of secrecy. The result is a compact joke about wanting information mainly for the pleasure of passing it on. Calling it a Fishism gives this questionable rule the shape of a personal maxim.

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