Haunts of the Black Masseur by Charles Sprawson

Author:Charles Sprawson [Charles Sprawson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1993-06-17T04:00:00+00:00

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1 Richard Jefferies had once written an essay ‘Mind under Water’ to describe his empathy with fish. Many of these swimmers reveal a remarkable sympathy with life underwater, as if in touch with their distant marine existence, traces of which emerge in our bodies at the embryonic stage – lamprey’s kidneys, gills – only to disappear at birth. Borrow longed to be a fish, as did Denton Welch on hot nights in China. Shelley returned crayfish to the Thames after buying them and Haydon was astonished by the paradox of his cruel treatment of women, his consideration for fish. The ‘ichthyosauran’ Powys transferred tadpoles from shallow to deep pools in a drought, waded far out into New York harbour to put a ‘diseased tortured fish’ out of its misery. Corvo felt himself a crab, Kingsley ‘made up principally of fish bones’.

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