A Conversation (where one of the parties is not forwardly participating)

"In the end, what can be said but that I lost a battle that no one
understood for ground that I didn't really care to have and it's been so long
ago that it doesn't matter and it's too insignificant to remember anyway."

`Why go on?`

"Why indeed?  You know, that's the funny thing. I never wanted to
be a big fish in a small pond.  I've tended to look at those who
did....gravitate to being big fish in small ponds with some deliberate
intent.  Not that our cases are analogous, really."

`Eh..`

"...having trouble with words again..."

`You're, at least, a fish.`

"That is the trouble of it, isn't it?, is that when a person is refered
to as 'a big fish in a small pond', in reality they're generally not
particularly big fish fighting for a thimbulful of water."

`The smaller, the better, they would see it.`