"Serious Delirium" -or- "Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them..."

The sea or a drop in it. This is a consideration of scale. The edges are met with glass and salt, or they are met with more drops. Somehow that introduces a difference. They're probably swirling all around it, all of the fishes, all of the smallest animals right now, as I write this, as you read this.