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 ...
Bec, we enjoyed your post. We still dance like that! haha have fun! Aloha, Cher and Steve
ReplyDeleteI'm the dude in the double denim
ReplyDeleteI knew I liked y'all for good reasons - folk after my own dancing heart!
ReplyDeleteGerry, I just watched that clip again and I hadn't even noticed the double-denim guy til you pointed him out. He is SO feeling it!! Yes!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can recreate this entire clip when I swing through Newcastle next?
I still dance like this when I have my dance parties for one. Now that I'm gainfully employed, I'm horrified by the fact that there's no disco ball in the office for Friday afternoon dance parties!
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