The Ocean Comments

This is rich, rich, rich, like rich, moist homemade fruitcake, with cherries and walnuts and citrus rinds of various kinds, that one eats a small slice of, very, very slowly, in silence with one's eyes closed to savour each separate taste and the perfect blend of them all to perfection, and then when it is all consumed, one's taste buds keep dreaming for a long while afterwards... I love Shelley's 'The Cloud' - 'I bring fresh showers for thirsting flowers... ', but right now, I would prefer to (and will) re-read your 'The Ocean'. I keep saying it, but it is very difficult to believe (but I do!) that you are only 23. You have packed a lot of living and thinking into a mere 23 years.