Personification of disease

Benjamin franklin has a dialogue with gout and for some unknown reason it had to be a woman. There are known to be other such personifications relating to the causes and remedies too..I can understand why he didnt have a dialogue with the remedy, most likely he never got to it. I wonder why he didnt have dialogues with indolence , his habits of chess and writing.

If you were a fish

would you feel cheated if you were lured with an artificial fly? Welcome to fly fishing. Why did the fish not evolve with the ability to shed off their tail at will? Then you could send your tail to test the water. But then again you could do this trial only as fast as the tail can grow. ************** Fishing with a worm- Bliss Perry