but you knew why the boat was sinking 36.
So I’ ll jump into the depths toward the belly of the beast 37 for my father taught me to swim. The hull has too many cracks 38. And yet light leaks in, blinding, like a white whale 39, or the back of the Limitless 40 And I’ ll see that others have disembarked from that ship called“ Eicha 41” And“ Ayeka 42” floating and dancing in Her 43 shoals, they kick up sand into little archipelagos wherein they dwell
or at least mostly for Frodo.' Gandalf put his hand on Pippin’ s head.“ There never was much hope,’ he answered.‘ Just a fool’ s hope, as I have been told.
36
See Jonah 1:12
37
Jonah 2; 1
38
See Leonard Cohen’ s song“ Anthem”.
39
See Melville’ s Moby Dick
40
See Exodus 33:23 and Meville’ s Moby Dick“ Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts”
41
The dumbfounded words of the poet / narrators in Lamenations“ How!?” See 1:1, 2:1, 4:1 and the existential question posed to the primordial earthling by the Unconditional in Genesis, i. e.“ Where are you?”. Not also the playful vocalization in midrashic literature. Depending on how one vocalizes the consonantal text, the word may be read either as“ how” or“ where are you?”
42
Genesis 3:9
43
Shekhinah, Who is associated in kabbalistic literature with the sea. Moving perhaps, away from seeking to find meaning in destruction but rather to immanence and Presence.
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