The axolotls' eyes are totally different, without pupils or irises, a solid gold color that speaks "of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing" (6). Of the fish, he says, "the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own" (that is, human eyes), suggests to him nothing noteworthy or interesting to glean about their existence. The other animals there don't impress the narrator. He rides his bike to the zoo and, finding the lions in a sad state and the panthers asleep, decides to venture into the aquarium. The narrator describes his first encounter with the axolotls. With this declaration, the narrator then charts his growing obsession with the amphibians up to the moment of his abrupt transformation. In the first lines of the story, the narrator declares that after observing the axolotls so closely, he has actually become an axolotl. The first story of the collection, "Axolotl," follows an unnamed first-person narrator who becomes obsessed with observing the axolotls in the aquarium exhibit of the zoo at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
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