Whale or Wail?

posted by [identity profile] violetsaunders.livejournal.com at 12:17pm on 22/01/2006
Great entry - and I love the way the poem begins when you look it up. Sorry the whale died in the end.

I was impressed how the whale became the top news story of the day - around the world I am told.

Maybe it worked as a metaphor for our contemporary 'lostness' in metropolitan modern life - along with buying stuff from Lush and farmers markets. I get the impression there are large numbers of people running as hard as possible away from the present, but always staying in the values of the present. Cf the very different fate of the last whale stranded in the Thames (as described by John Evelyn).
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