29rd May 2003
billions of blue blistering barnacles
Steinbeck says somewhere that every thing on land seems to have its analogue in the sea. For instance:
sea apple
sea biscuit
sea cucumber
sea dragon
sea elephant
sea fan
sea grape
sea hare
sea island
sea jersey
sea kale
sea lemon
sea monkey
sea nettle
sea otter
sea potato
sea quill
sea robin
sea scorpion
sea thistle
sea urchin
sea view
sea wolf
sea x...
sea y...
sea z...
As usual, there are problems compiling an alphalist. 'I' is feeble ('An offshore mooring station where oil tankers can discharge their cargo and from which the oil can be pumped ashore.'), 'J' isn't very good, 'V' is atrocious, and the last three are inevitably not there at all. Suggestions welcome!
whose herbage the rain has guaranteed,
in which there is but little dung;
and which is not marked with the feet of animals.
- Antar, Bedouin poet