Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A picture of a web. I especially liked the way the colors echo each other from one part of the image to another. It is regular and simple, in some ways, but remarkably complex.

It put me in mind of Grave's "The Cool Web"

There's a cool web of language winds us in,
Retreat from too much joy or too much fear;
We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
In brininess and volubility. 

One can only marvel at the discipline and precision of his language, who else could manage "brininess" and "volubility" in a single line and still it scans?

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