The Drowned Giant by J G Ballard

Author:J G Ballard
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-01-15T18:19:04.555000+00:00

hadgone the children continued to run up and down the arms andlegs, and the youths wrestled with each other over the supineface, the damp sand from their feet covering the white skin.

The following day I deliberately postponed my visit until thelate afternoon, and when I arrived there were fewer than 50 or 60 people sitting on the shingle. The giant had been carriedstill closer to the shore, and was now little more than 75

yardsaway, his feet crushing the palisade of a rotting break-water. The slope of the firmer sand tilted his body toward sea, the bruised swollen face averted in an almost conscious gesture. I sat down on a large metal winch which had been shackledto a concrete caisson above the shingle, and looked downat the recumbent figure.

His blanched skin had now lost its pearly translucence and wasspattered with dirty sand which replaced that washed awayby the night tide. Clumps of seaweed filled the intervals betweenthe fingers and a collection of litter and cuttlebones layin the crevices below the hips and knees. But despite this, andthe continuous thickening of his features, the giant still retained his magnificent Homeric stature. The enormous breadthof the shoulders, and the huge columns of the arms and legs, still carried the figure into another dimension, and the giantseemed a more authentic image of one of the drowned Argonauts or heroes of the Odyssey than the conventional portraitpreviously in my mind.

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