the sea is all about us
From The Dry Salvages by T.S. Eliot (published in 1941) The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also, the granite Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses Its hints of earlier and other creation: The starfish, the horseshoe crab, the whale's backbone; The pools where it offers to our curiosity The more delicate algae and the sea anemone. It tosses up our losses, the torn seine, The shattered lobsterpot, the broken oar And the gear of foreign dead men. The sea has many voices, Many gods and many voices. ---------------- I just read this at the beginning of the Afterword by Jeffrey S. Levinton in the 1989 edition of Rachel Carson's, The Sea Around Us. It is a section of a much longer poem, that itself is part of a set, Four Quartets , that were largely written during World War II. The Dry Salvages was written during the air-raids in Britain, and it is very sad. I'm not vouching for the whole thing, but ...
My God! Even the cover art is appalling.
ReplyDeleteHow the lasses hair becomes the barrel. And how there is no wake from Rick Kane's unwaxed board.
And what's that small writing: 'On a small stretch of coastline, as powerful as a man's will...'
Get out of there Bec! Get out of there now!!
I'm trying...
ReplyDeleteBut it won't let go of my eyes!
Abort mission and save yourselves!!
I'm pretty sure in the opening credits they are surfing the wave pool at wet'n'wild - I swear I can see blue painted concrete!
ReplyDeletehaha just watched it. so cheesy but good at the same time. like cheesey puffs.
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