If there were poetic justice in the world this is what would happen:
The boat should sail to the doldrums and there be becalmed. His shipmates
should hang the dead albatross around the killer's neck. They should behold
a ghost ship approaching, crewed by Nightmare Life in Death and her mate.
The rest of the crew should die and the killer be left to look upon 'a
thousand thousand slimy things' and water snakes, and eventually be
compelled to bless them. At this the ship's crew should become reanimated
and a wind spring up to drive the boat on. The boat should return to its
native shore, where the crew once more drop dead, and the killer of the
albatross be given penance, but only on condition that he travel about
constantly telling his story to impatient wedding guests and others.
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Dr John Leonard
PO Box 243, Woden,
ACT 2606, AUSTRALIA
'... after only twenty years in existence much of the
environmental movement has taken on the form of just
another corporation or interest group. Their interest may
be disinterest, but their methods are one with the rational
élites and are therefore limited to the details of corporate life.
[They] ... are attempting to justify restraint and a common-
sense approach to self-respect with the use of intellectual
tools designed to eliminate both.' John Ralston Saul
http://spirit.net.au/~jleonard
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