tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7685622703998665002..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Lost Continent: Cook at Desolation Island (1776)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76051270757447077602011-05-16T07:53:21.723-07:002011-05-16T07:53:21.723-07:00And here, even as I hunt and peck these humble phr...And here, even as I hunt and peck these humble phrases, comes the advance flotilla of the next fleet of storms from... either Desolation Island or the Bering Straits, I can't remember any more.<br /><br />Thinking of Stephen's love of the sea and Curtis's birding proclivities over the past few nights has now brought about <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/sanderlings.html" rel="nofollow">The Sanderlings</a> and <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/banksia.html" rel="nofollow">Banksia</a><br />...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4852253499511268262011-05-15T08:12:33.864-07:002011-05-15T08:12:33.864-07:00Tom and Curtis,
Yes, and a pleasure too to start ...Tom and Curtis,<br /><br />Yes, and a pleasure too to start the day after such rain as last night's, with sunlight now pouring down above the tops of clouds -- and to imagine such voyages of exploration, map making, cabbage and lichen finding, ships under sail gone from home for long stretches of time, being there on the shores of that desolate Lost Continent. . . .<br /><br /><br />5.15<br /><br />silver edge of grey cloud above shadowed<br />plane of ridge, blackness of pine branch<br />in foreground, waves sounding in channel<br /><br /> in connection with the word,<br /> ground for this “fact”<br /><br /> picture’s world, looking at,<br /> time that of being in<br /><br />grey-white clouds reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72583877752263422972011-05-15T00:38:51.872-07:002011-05-15T00:38:51.872-07:00Curtis,
On a cold sodden night of continuous rain...Curtis,<br /><br />On a cold sodden night of continuous rain here on the Lost Continent, it is very pleasant to feel the warmth of your company.<br /><br />The maddening and apparently whimsical misconduct of these lab pixies to whom we must offer the sacrifice of our time and trouble in order to have the honour of providing "content" to the Cloud is so infuriating that one hesitates even to acknowledge their brainless power.<br /><br />In fact for the past week there has been the feeling of being lost at sea in the aether with neither a great navigator like Cook to guide us nor a helpful (and ancient) antiscorbutic cabbage on hand to relieve the symptomatic effects of the overlong voyage into the fog.<br /><br />Of course in the distant geological view, entire continents have arisen and fallen and will rise and fall again without anyone to remark the fact; and in this timeframe, our own skewed agendas probably figure less prominently than would a patch of lichen on Kerguelen Island.<br /><br />However, that patch of lichen would at least have the satisfaction of being microbe-free. <br /><br />"Stirility" may indeed simply be another way of saying "clean".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78643787748215510052011-05-14T18:38:00.481-07:002011-05-14T18:38:00.481-07:00I meant to add that Kerguelen's Cabbage is ext...I meant to add that Kerguelen's Cabbage is extraordinary looking (seeming to be both earthly and extra-terrestrial in origin) and it so fits the lost/micro-continent context. "'from its stirility' he would call it the Island of Desolation". Curtis<br />P.S. Blogger seems to be acting up again. I really hope it isn't. C.ACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21961957384072658802011-05-14T18:30:05.011-07:002011-05-14T18:30:05.011-07:00Today I've been revisiting both of the new pos...Today I've been revisiting both of the new posts periodically because the images, colors, titles and their juxtaposition with the text (which I only was able to skim lightly) were so arresting. Then I determined to read through this before heading off to bed. It was so gripping, took my imagination in so many directions, and helped re-order my disordered "agenda," for which I'm grateful. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com