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...subjects. As Novelist John Fowles argues, this patch of ocean "may well be the most terrible ten square miles in maritime history." Some 2,000 British seamen drowned there one night in 1707; the most celebrated recent victim was the oil freighter Torrey Canyon, which was reduced to catastrophic flotsam in 1967. The Gibsons' pictures (the earliest dating from 1872) all capture the ruined beauty of such ships: "As tragic," Fowles writes, "as the vanished masterpieces of great sculptors...
Higgins is not a good political novelist, at least in the traditional sense. Nothing much actually happens. But perhaps the author wants to say that politics is a lot of stale talk. Watergate flows in the book like so much flotsam. "Liddy had 50 Minoltas," remarks one character idly. Cavanaugh is amused by the fact that Vatican money financed the Watergate apartment building: "Maybe I should pay closer attention to what Monsignor Lally writes in the Pilot...
...glad to read that England has fewer polluted rivers [Dec. 25]. There was a time when observers reported seeing birds walking across the rivers on flotsam and jetsam, evoking the comment, "The quality of Mersey is not strained...
...Northern California, Oregon and Washington, where headlands sweep down to meet the pounding surf of the Pacific, the coastline is relatively pristine. But change may be coming: flotsam from paper mills has already fouled Washington's Bellingham Bay, electric companies dream of huge atomic plants cooled by the waters from the ocean, and developers see the region as a site for endless rows of vacation homes...
...especially liked two songs flotsam and jetsam and the title number they seemed to catch what you called the golden nonsense of the heart