Waking the Braves

[Mike Weaver]

 Keith Brecher wrote
> My original point about
>the title's link to TRP is that it's an unusual phrase and appears in GR as
>"the breaking of the wave."

 I'll bet three keys of Super Skunk to Bodine's roach clip that Keith lives
a long way from the sea.  I was never much of a surfer so didn't stick
around that scene long but I'm sure it's a common metaphor among amateur
poets in those circles.  

 Looking in my old dictionary of quotations I find:

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets making
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

That's Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)

Then more recent is Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938)

Admirals all, for England's sake, 
Honour be yours, and fame!
And honour, as long as waves shall break,
To Nelson's peerless name

"Everything you think of has been said, by someone's brother or someone
else's mother..." sang  Kevin Ayers.

Too silly...  night night y'all

mike

PS   Could some kind and well read soul do me a favour and give me a brief
run down on *Pynchon's polarities*.  There was, a couple of weeks ago, some
mention of something like TP presenting polarities as problematics (or some
other alliterative arrangement.)  Coz of particular intellectual obsessions
of mine divided by a lack of access to literary academia I really would like
to know what the debate is around these areas and even simply what is meant
by the terms.  Andrew D in the debate with John Mascaro recently mentioned
polarities in a context with which I would like to have engaged but didn't
want to without a better understanding of the issues.
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