Shoreswerve or shoresweave: a waterlogged alphabet
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.
And sterner comes the roar
Of sea and wind; and through the deepening gloom
Fainter and fainter wreck and helmsman loom,
And he too disappears, and comes no more.Matthew Arnold, excerpt from A Summer Night (1852)
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ANAMNESIS
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BARRIERS
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CONTRARIAN
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DISSOLUTION
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ENDURING
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FICTIONS
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GUNMETAL
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HEADSTRONG
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INDENT
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JOUISSANCE
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KOMPROMAT
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LUDIC
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MEMORIAL
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NOOSPHERE
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OBFUSCATION
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PERPETUAL
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QUISLINGS
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RECRUDESCENCE
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SOLITARY
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THALASSOCRACY
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ULLULATIONS
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VAGARY
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WESTERNMOST
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XANTHOUS
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YESTERYEAR
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ZEUGMA
These photographs were taken on a walk with Murdo Eason in Leith on 13 July 2019, a million lifetimes ago.