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Friends,
I'm kinda up late. Mostly I was trying to map out the next 3-5 years of my life and now I seem to just be googling "Ben Ong".
I'm planning to quit Heirloom and make three new zines about:
Bears and Bear Habitats
Anchoresses
Wanda Gag biography as children's storybook.
I'm very interested currently in water formations, water, caves, caverns, danger, water-danger.
I read a story this afternoon called "The Shell Collector". It's about a blind cone-shell expert who lives in a marine park in the remotest part of the Lamu Archipelago, off of Kenya. He is an old hermit living in a shack with his dog, Tumaini. Then all sorts of people looking for adventure/hope/health interrupt his life but what is most amazing about the story is the description of the incredibly dangerous shell-creatures in his midst! I learned so much about:
The Geography Cone, a small cone shell that poisons and eats large fish;
Cone shells which travel from the sea into the forest, able to sting even far from the sea.
The fictional cone shell venom that creates visions of ice-fields and glaciers in people suffering from malaria.
But it's the way that the dangers of the sea are written:
"Sometimes it seemed to (the shell collector) that the whole sea had become a tub of poison harbouring throngs of villains. Sand eels, stinging corals, sea snakes, crabs, men-of-war, barracuda, mantas, sharks, urchins."
Sea-danger! The story is just gorgeous.
Love Amy.
I'm kinda up late. Mostly I was trying to map out the next 3-5 years of my life and now I seem to just be googling "Ben Ong".
I'm planning to quit Heirloom and make three new zines about:
Bears and Bear Habitats
Anchoresses
Wanda Gag biography as children's storybook.
I'm very interested currently in water formations, water, caves, caverns, danger, water-danger.
I read a story this afternoon called "The Shell Collector". It's about a blind cone-shell expert who lives in a marine park in the remotest part of the Lamu Archipelago, off of Kenya. He is an old hermit living in a shack with his dog, Tumaini. Then all sorts of people looking for adventure/hope/health interrupt his life but what is most amazing about the story is the description of the incredibly dangerous shell-creatures in his midst! I learned so much about:
The Geography Cone, a small cone shell that poisons and eats large fish;
Cone shells which travel from the sea into the forest, able to sting even far from the sea.
The fictional cone shell venom that creates visions of ice-fields and glaciers in people suffering from malaria.
But it's the way that the dangers of the sea are written:
"Sometimes it seemed to (the shell collector) that the whole sea had become a tub of poison harbouring throngs of villains. Sand eels, stinging corals, sea snakes, crabs, men-of-war, barracuda, mantas, sharks, urchins."
Sea-danger! The story is just gorgeous.
Love Amy.