NPPF: Commentary to lines 47-48

[Glenn Scheper]

Part 4 of ?

Some Mental Illness includes inability to drop a line of thought.

When I last posted of _Wasteland_, that:
> 270 Red sails
> 271 Wide
> 272 To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
> Big Aha! This is coitus: Sails = female; Spar = male.
I had been thinking of that all weekend, drilling boring
holes in concrete--for my wife rules the weekends.

The next day I couldn't even see this metaphor, it fit
so smoothly into its context ostensibly about barges:
266 The river sweats
267 Oil and tar
268 The barges drift
269 With the turning tide
270 Red sails
271 Wide
272 To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.
273 The barges wash
274 Drifting logs
275 Down Greenwich reach
276 Past the Isle of Dogs.
http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

Today I am looking over an harvest, 400 files on a search
for a man named Wallace (I forgot why he even interests me),
and the largest is highly relevant, since I also interpret
LABIA ARE WINGS, as with Seraphs, Now LABIA ARE SAILS too!
And of course, AF is BIRD, but I'm only coming to see SEA.

http://www.cichw.net/SSSB.htm
BIRD SHIP SUN SEA

>  During the 4,000 year literary period which this essay is
>  attempting to skim, the emphasis on the means by which the
>  dead are transported to the other world shifts gradually
>  from a winged creature, of decreasingly monstrous aspect, to
>  the sea-going ship. Both concepts are nonetheless
>  continuously in evidence throughout and beyond this span.
>  Pictures of sea-craft appear on funerary urns in Egypt from
>  the 4th millenium BC; and the ship as bird, and on occasion
>  vice versa --- wings can be thought of as sails --- has been
>  a stock simile in the mouths of poets for at least a
>  thousand years. The Beowulf poet pictures the foam-throated
>  ship which carries Beowulf and his companions to their first
>  adventure as breasting the waves, fugle gelīcost, "most
>  like a bird" (Klaeber l.218). Tennyson, many of whose poems
>  evoke the sea, describes how "a pinnace, like a flutter'd
>  bird, came flying from far away" (470); and in H.E.Boulton's
>  Skye Boat Song, the ship of Prince Charles Edward's
>  salvation is urged to "Speed, bonny boat, like a bird on the
>  wing". But before turning to the links between ships, the
>  sea, the sun, and man's last voyage, we have not yet
>  finished with the birds and their other-worldly
>  associations.
 
Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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