"The Marginal World"-- p538 #1, 3
"The Marginal World"-- p538 #1, 3
1.The edge of the sea is dual natured because it belongs to both land and to sea. It is an ancient world, because it has been here for millions of years. It holds many secrets in its depths. Both of man and animal. The sea is full of fossils and lost architecture.
3. This in between space is an image for life in general to Carson because, as she states, "Looking back across that immense flat, crossed by winding water-filled gullies and here and there holding shallow pools left by the tide, I was filled with awareness that this intertidal area, although abandoned briefly and rhythmically by the sea, is always reclaimed by the rising tide. There at the edge of low water the beach with its reminders of the land seemed far away", I think that life or death could be seen in this abandonment and reclamation.
1.The edge of the sea is dual natured because it belongs to both land and to sea. It is an ancient world, because it has been here for millions of years. It holds many secrets in its depths. Both of man and animal. The sea is full of fossils and lost architecture.
3. This in between space is an image for life in general to Carson because, as she states, "Looking back across that immense flat, crossed by winding water-filled gullies and here and there holding shallow pools left by the tide, I was filled with awareness that this intertidal area, although abandoned briefly and rhythmically by the sea, is always reclaimed by the rising tide. There at the edge of low water the beach with its reminders of the land seemed far away", I think that life or death could be seen in this abandonment and reclamation.
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