Day 1,311 of My Captivity

Summary

• The chapter narrates from the perspective of a creature held in captivity on its 1,311th day.
• The narrator is critical of humans' obsession and incredulity with the predictability of weather changes.
• The comparison is drawn between humans discussing the weather and the narrator speaking to sea jellies about tank bubbles - both instances being perceived as preposterous.
• The narrator observes human visitors to his enclosure dealing with the heat, fanning themselves with pamphlets, wearing shorter clothes and continuously commenting on the weather.
• The narrator notes how the change of season is approaching, with the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, soon to occur.
• The chapter ends with a sense of finality as the narrator forebodingly declares it their final summer solstice.