Tyrone Longchamps - plain vanilla criminal.

"so inconsistent is human nature... that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short" - Stowe of all people!

the little henchwoman. she was at the top of the stairs, where she was not supposed to be.

Eve ringbarked the tree
Even stripped off and boiled the bark!

'throwing his life ironically away'

that is me

throwing my life ironically away.

"Let life come asunder, they say. Let water conceive no more with fire. Let mating finish. Let the elements leave off kissing, and turn their backs on one another. Let the merman turn away from his human wife and children, let the seal-woman forget the world of men, remembering only the waters."

"They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains/ the hottest blood of all..." Whales Weep Not.

From time to time, then, Lawrence could write.

They say the sea the sea they say they say they say the sea is the sea they say

her warm sob
that slow plume of sound slow upblooming
like blood blushed in water.

leaves have eaten from my hand
stones gleam in the snowdrink.