M&D Deep Duck 4-6: The Whole Sick Crew

[Mark Kohut]

Another Shakespeare footnote about how the ocean, from way back,
has stood for the psyche, the elemental unconscious, the forces within
nature we encounter unthinkingly....

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> The East River is not a river, but a straight. It is part of the great
> estuary, the Long Island Sound, that place where Gatsby's  Dutch
> Sailors had a vision of the unfathomable land, where Gatsby built his
> home, where Pynchon grew up, and is the subject, though re-located to
> an extent, of his short stories.  The "River"  is and has been a place
> of danger, hazard, and disaster, including, of course, the great one,
> commemorated on both sides of the river with memorials. On the East
> side the memorial is at a place the Greeks, who have made it their
> home, call Charybdis. From either side it is easy enough to see that
> the name is fitting. The swirling waters at Hell's Gate can swing a
> ship off course or swallow a small craft. In my brief career as a
> fisherwoman I made that journey from Eatons Neck to Cold Spring and
> then from the Sound through the Straight, passed Hell's Gate and
> Charybdis. It did not start off well as the harbor master did not want
> us to put our dingy in the water so as we could row out to our boat.
> The wind was fierce and it was no easy job, but my betters were
> skilled and brave men. It got worse. I'm glad to have survived it.
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