I like that; I wonder if, in some Jugian oversoul, there’s a connection between poor drown’d Ophelia and the selkies? She and the seal folk swam in the same cold northern waters, after all. Though it didn’t work out quite so well for Ophelia…
Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
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October 10th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Ophelia from the sea lion production of Hamlet.
-cK
October 10th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I like that; I wonder if, in some Jugian oversoul, there’s a connection between poor drown’d Ophelia and the selkies? She and the seal folk swam in the same cold northern waters, after all. Though it didn’t work out quite so well for Ophelia…
Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
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