what this is about
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what this is about
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ON THE BEACH: cetaceans
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Not _catching_ cetaceans, but _finding_ them, rounding a curve on the beach or looking down a cliff and beholding the whale on the strand, stranded. The serendipitous sighting of a dead whale by aventure, as they say in medieval romance, by chance.
Two summers ago, I’m pretty sure I broke the law. It’s not the first time, but I never thought I’d break the Marine Mammal Protection Act. So this is also about stranded objects—decorative objects carved from whale’s bone and whale’s teeth, tokens of loss, remainders, things left over, translated from the natural world into one’s palm. Dead things that nevertheless possess life, not only the life that we project onto them, but the life with which they weigh in, on their own.
Two summers ago, I’m pretty sure I broke the law. It’s not the first time, but I never thought I’d break the Marine Mammal Protection Act. So this is also about stranded objects—decorative objects carved from whale’s bone and whale’s teeth, tokens of loss, remainders, things left over, translated from the natural world into one’s palm. Dead things that nevertheless possess life, not only the life that we project onto them, but the life with which they weigh in, on their own.
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kk, “what this is about,” The Middle Shore, accessed May 15, 2024, https://middleshore.omeka.net/items/show/47.