"Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus…

I was born in the red silence between gulls, the salt-eaten croon of the tide folding itself over a wet-black shore. The wind tongued the shingles, sang low and rough like an old woman spinning yarns at the hearth. I knew, even as a girl, that the sea was a hunger that could not be kissed quiet.
The Mouth of the River
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Ani Eldritch
John E Marks
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Feb 6, 2025
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"Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939) A long time ago, that.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
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