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I was reading something and saw the following lines spoken by an old male
artist:

> 船が、水の下の者どもに気を配っていて大海原を往けるだろうか？
>
> 芸術も、人生も、しょせん水もの…
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> 水を **こざいて** 浮き上がった者だけが勝つのだ！

Someone else then responds:

> キレイな言葉でボヤかしてやがるが、『他人なんて踏み台だ』って意味じゃねーか。

This was all overlaid upon the following image: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGX1a.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGX1a.png)

I have no idea what 水を **こざく** means. The only thing I can find is maybe it's
[dialectal](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/dialect/1148/m9u/%E6%96%B0%E6%BD%9F/),
but that doesn't seem to make sense because if you're walking/treading (歩く) in
water are you really 浮き上がる (floating) on top of water? What kind of image am I
supposed to be seeing here?
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What does 水をこざく mean?
According to [this](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/dialect/1148/m0u/) it's
something like "to wade through." Without further context, it sounds like it's
some kind of "sink or swim" implication.
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