RE: words, words everywhere and a tinny ear to hear

Scottie, Icebergs or reefs, both can rip your bottom out but only one of the
hazards moves in unpredictable ways like thing living. Icebergs, frozen
water, ice crystals, very orderly but untame all the same. Reefs? once
living now dead, visible in shallow water for the wary, deadly for the rash
but quite avoidable if one sticks to the deep channels. Just stick a man in
the shrouds to cast a line and take soundings as you go. Conrad built his
worlds with these stony limbs. Ernie allows us to set sail in what we
presume to be open seas with unsounded bottoms but like you he brought in
the stamping, hot breathed semi-wild Toro to churn the waves. Some people
eat their baked potatoes with a dash of salt and others heap on the butter,
sour cream, chives and even Chile. So maybe instead of 'missing the
unsteady hearts of men'; maybe 'finding no cleft in the stony hearts of men'
or 'finding no rest before the cold ashes of man's hearth'; you know
Scottie, wooden ships and iron men. But concerning tinny ears, the
possibility of yours being such is no excuse for us.
Daniel
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Received on Thu Aug 7 10:52:38 2003