Not waving but drowning

Looking at the unusually large waves being churned up on the shore of Brighton’s beach yesterday put me in mind of a particularly descriptive line from Joyce:

"Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea."

waves crashing on the beach with the palace pier in the background

Saturday, August 21st, 2004 3:14pm

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