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[gracetree]

je voyais tout le decor dont, en esprit, il s'entourait: vetements, draps, meubles; je lui pretais des armes, une autre figure. je voyais tout ce qui le touchait, comme il aurait voulu le creer pour lui. quand il me semblait avoir l'esprit inerte, je le suivais, moi, dans des actions etranges et compliquees, loin, bonnes ou mauvaises: j'etais sure

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notes on the sea's existence

[adiezel]

1

Yellow island, yellow sun:
My struggle began
with a soft wave,
which offered love
on the shore's terms.
Wearing a mask of glares,
the white, white sand
touched me with fire.

I held myself together,
a still breath.

2

It pulls me to itself,
the reflection, no, not mine:
I know the water's fidelity,

its utter transparence. The sea
becomes me like nothing
else: I wear it like skin.

Who pulls me with such
ease? A dead ancestor,
a lost friend, or

the shell's hollow cry?
The weeds wrap me, like arms.
I'm pulled down, down, to the tip of the sky.

I hold the world as I drown.

[agha shahid ali]

Re: notes on the sea's existence

[gracetree]

who ain't a slave? tell me that. well, then, however, the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, i have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

[herman melville]