Day 1,329 of My Captivity

Summary

• The narrator is a highly intelligent imprisoned cephalopod who has learned to adapt to its captivity using knowledge and learning.
• The cephalopod views human phrases like "What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him" and "Ignorance is bliss" as nonsense.
• In captivity, it has learned to solve puzzles, unlock doors, determine how long it can be out of water before suffering consequences, among other things.
• It has also become highly perceptive to details of human interactions and physical traits, to the point of discerning family relations and secret affairs.
• It relates an observed interaction between a sports-obsessed father and son, pointing out the genetic incompatibility between the two and hinting at the mother's infidelity.
• The cephalopod also draws a connection between the former cleaning woman and her replacement, pointing out their many shared traits and suggesting that the new cleaner is the woman's long-lost descendant.
• The cephalopod defends its deductions as more than mere coincidence and asks the reader to believe in the claims.