Nicholas Allen
@dedalusdenaries
‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald Late Heaney (
Beautiful as it was, I have never walked so far out to swim as I did in Formby, I was nearly back in Ireland
The sun on the sea in endless variations, each wave a different distribution
I wouldn’t normally swim in Robert’s Cove but today the sea was up and it was like a bath as the waves broke beyond. Cork is very like Cornwall on days like this, the yellow fields of cut hay behind.
The water is cold, but each evening more beautiful than the last
I wonder did Harry Clarke think of Vincent‘s flowers when Clarke made his stained glass anemones later
Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Joseph Roulin Arles, early 1889 Star mariner, steered by earth light