Thursday 10 May 2007

LAUNCH DAY

A name has be found ... the last props are now taken away .... the champagne bottle is successfully swung ... deep breath and ho-o-o-ld ..... wait, wait .... watch the grease on the blocks.... "There she goes! "... mountainous piles of chains start to drag down the slipway ... ... dust everywhere ... darkness as the hull blocks all the daylight, then ....

KER-SPLASH!!!!!!................ and light.

Liza Dalby in her new book "East Wind Melts the Ice: a Memoir Through the Seasons", Chatto & Windus, talks about the Japanese literary genre of saijki which means "a year's journal" and is written in the prose style of zuihitsu meaning "following the [line of the] brush": follow where your line of thought takes you.

So ... after the Big Splash let's see where the ripples go ....

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