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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR 'The sea, everywhere the sea, and no one looking at it', Dany Laferrière, Heading South, Douglas & McIntyre, 2009, quoted Kafou catalogue, Nottingham Contemporary, 2012, 82 THERISINGSEA 6 'The wind howled', 15 February 2014. 6 'In Caribbean hurricanes', see Stuart B. Schwartz, Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, Princeton University Press, 2015, 14. 7 'Views of Netley Abbey', William Westall, Engelmann, 1828, Hartley Library Special Collections, University of Southampton. 12 'drowndead', Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield The Younger, Hazell, Watson & Viney, Chapter III, 35. As a young man living in London, David Copperfield takes regular early morning plunges - 'I tumbled head foremost into it' - in Roman Baths on Strand Lane (in fact, a seventeenth-century cistern built as part of Somerset House), (ibid, 410, 402). Dickens worked on the novel when he was staying in the Isle of Wight, in a room overlooking the sea at Bonchurch. 12 'People can’t die', 'And, it being low water, he went out with the tide', ibid, Chapter XXX, 360; quoted by Nick Groom, The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year, Atlantic, 2013, 60. In Henry V (Act II, Sc III, l13), Falstaff dies at the turning of the tide - see Jeremy Tambling, notes to David Copperfield, Penguin, 2004, 962. See also note to p.218, below. Speranza Wilde, mother of Oscar, recorded an Irish custom that feverish patients should be left on the shore as the tide came in; when it went out, it would take the fever with it; see Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast: Legends and Traditions from the shores of Britain and Ireland, Random House, 2012, 202. 12 'Siberian shamans', see Bernd Brunner, Moon: A Brief History, Yale University Press, 2010, 7. 12 'the lunar effect', ibid, 164-8. See also John Roach, 'Can the Moon Cause Earthquakes?', National Geographic News, 23 May 2005: 'The same force that raises the "tides" in the ocean also raises tides in the [Earth's] crust'. Recent reports also indicate that climate change and increased storms may trigger earthquakes by 'lubricating' tectonic plates. 'How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes', The Observer, 16 October 2016. 13 'The sea has many voices', T.S. Eliot, 'The Dry Salvages', lines 24-25, Four Quartets, Faber, 1968, 36. 13 'We cannot think', ibid, line 69, p.38. 13 'In civilisations without boats', Michel Foucault, 'Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias' / 'Des Espace Autres', March 1967, translated by Jay Miskowiec, Architecture/Movement/Continuité, October 1984, web.mit.edu, accessed 22 August 2016; also Diatrics 16, 1986, 27, quoted Elspeth Probyn, Eating the Ocean, University of Washington Press, 2016, 40. 13 'a tradition in maritime communities', see Imogen Crawford-Mowday, 'Caul: A Sailor's Charm', England: The Other Within, Pitt-Rivers Museum website; also Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood, The Fabled Coast, op cit, 401-402; and Jeremy Tambling, notes to David Copperfield, op cit, 943. 11 13 'born behind the veil', see Ruth A. Casie, 'Born Behind the Veil', 'Here be magic' blog, 12 January 2013. 13 'the times of dreamy quietude', Herman Melville, 'The Glider', Moby-Dick, Arion Press/University of California Press, 1983, 498. 14 'An astrophysicist', Stuart Clarke in conversation with the author, Guadalajara International Book Fair, 5 December 2015; also David Grinspoon, 'Hunting for Alien Worlds: The Science of Exoplanet Habitability', Astrobiology magazine, 9 April 2013, www.space.com; 'Small Saturn moon has most conditions needed to sustain life, Nasa says', The Guardian 14 April 2017. 14 'National Oceanography Centre in Southampton', site visits with Damon Teagle and Millie Watts, 15 July 2016 & 21 February 2017. 15 ‘fraughting souls’, The Tempest, I.2, 13. 15 'wide-chopped rascal', ibid, I.1, 55. 15 ‘He that’s born', see Anne Righter, commentary, The Tempest, New Penguin Shakespeare, 1968, 141. 15 'What cares these roarers’ The Tempest, I.1, 16-17. 15 ‘Hell is empty’, ibid, I.2, 213-215. 15 'Demonologie', for the North Berwick witch trials and Agnes Sampson, supposed Scottish witch, see University of Glasgow Special Collections website, Niki Pollock, August 2000, 'Newes from Scotland', Sp Coll Ferguson Al-a.36, special.lib.gla.ac.uk; also Wikipedia entry, 'North Berwick Witch Trials'. 16 'unwholesome fen', The Tempest, I.2, 322. 16 ‘'a savage and deformed slave', The Tempest, dramatis personae 16 'Legged like a man!' II, 2, 33. 16 'evolutionary sea'. In 1878, Daniel Wilson published Caliban: The Missing Link, 'which identified him as Darwin's "missing link" and tied his (presumed) amphibious nature to the increasingly accepted view that human life had evolved from some sort of aquatic animal', Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan, Introduction, The Tempest, The Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury, 1999, 91. 16 'Fair Youth' - see Stewart Trotter, 'Shakespeare in Titchfield', blog, 1 September 2011, www.theshakespearecode.wordpresscom. 17 'deliberately enigmatic', Righter, commentary, The Tempest, op cit, 12-13. 17 'an apparition of a little round light', William Strachey, A True Reportory..., 1610, Rutgers University, accessed 22 August 2016, www.fas-history.rutgers.edu 17 'an American play', see Righter, commentary, The Tempest, op cit, 24 18 ‘We have seen many notable things', quoted Lincoln Paine, The Sea and Civilisation: A Maritime History of the World, Knopf, 2013, 391-2. 18 'he refers to it', 'Ocean' appears 35 times in Shakespeare's collected works; 'sea' appears 207 times ('Shakespeare Concordance', www.opensourcesshakespeare.org); see also Daniel Brayton, Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration, University of Virginia Press, 2012. 18 'never-surfeited sea', The Tempest, III. 3, l.56 18 ‘full fathom five’, ibid, I. 2, l.397-403; see also Righter commentary, op cit, 150. 19 'could not only call up the spirits of the deep', Samuel Taylor Coleridge, quoted Arden Shakespeare, op cit, 87-88. 19 'The murmuring of summer seas', ibid, 88. 19 'sea-shouldering whales', quoted Charles and Mary Cowden Clake, Recollections of Writers, Scribners, 1878, 126; also see Colin Silver, 'Romantic Readings: "On the Sea" by John Keats, 16 April 2016, Wordsworth.org.uk. 19 'habit has made me a Leviathan', Keats to J. H. Reynolds, 18 April 1817, edited 12 Sidney Colvin, Letters of John Keats, Macmillan, 1915, 9. 19 'la Whale's back', Keats to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817, Letters of John Keats, op cit, 11. 19 'the Southampton sea', The letters of Horace Walpole, Vol III, Richard Bentley, 1840, 150. 19 'The Southampton water', John Keats to George and Thomas Keats, 15 April 1817, Letters of John Keats, op cit, 4. 19 'There's my comfort', ibid, 4. 20 'Turner', see 'Joseph Mallord William Turner - Snow Storm - Steam-boat off a Harbour's Mouth', www.tate.org.uk, accessed 24 August 2016. It was thought that Turner made up the name of the ship, but new evidence appears to confirm at least this part of his story; see Sam Smiles, 'Ariel Steamship', www.shipsnostalgia.com, which notes that there was a wooden GPO paddle ship called Ariel operating during the period when Turner painted his picture (1842). See also The Times 28 October 1841, front page advertising for sale 'that fast and elegant PACKET, the ARIEL', and subsequent references to the ship sailing between Woolwich and Ostende (e.g. The Times, 21 June 1842, p.6), captained by (later Sir) Luke Smithett, knighted for his services to the Royal Family. 20 'tender as young sparrows', Herman Melville to Evert Duyckinck, Boston, 24 February 1894, quoted Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, Gordian Press, 1969, 288-289: 'Dolt & ass that I am I have lived more than 29 years, & until a few days ago, never made close acquaintance with the divine William... If another Messiah ever comes twill be in Shakespeare's person'. 20 'quiet words', Herman Melville, marginalia, see Leyda, ibid 289. 20 'O! wonder!', The Tempest, I.2, 397-403; see Leyda, op cit, 289. 20 'St Elmo's fire', see 'The Candles', Moby-Dick, op cit, 510. Melville saw the same 'corpusants' as 'large, dim stars in the sky' on his sea crossing to England, 12 October 1849, Leyda, op cit, 320. 21 'where the eddying depths', quoted 'The Sermon', Moby-Dick, op cit, 49-50 21 ‘muddied in that', The Tempest, V.1.150 21 'Those are pearls that were his eyes’, T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, line 48. 21 ‘Fear death by water’, ibid, 55 21 ‘a fortnight dead’, ibid, 312 22 'a chronology of three hundred and fifty years of the play's existence', Derek Jarman, quoted Jim Ellis 'Conjuring "The Tempest": Derek Jarman and the Spectacle of Redemption', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2001, 7 (2): 265-284. 22 'dancing sailors', see Tony Peake, Derek Jarman, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, 266. Jarman was inspired by Cocteau taking twenty-one sailors to Francis Rose's twenty-first birthday part. Caliban was played by Jack Birkett, blind actor who went by the name of the Great Orlando and was part of Lindsay Kemp's troupe. Thanks to Robert Lacey for drawing my attention to this. Jarman had originally planned that Brian Eno would write the soundtrack and David Bowie would sing Ariel's songs in his film (see Peake, ibid, 271). HEGAZESTOTHESHORE 30 'Welcome to Provincetown', pilot to Philip Hoare, 5 January 2016. 31 'Cormorants', ink drawing, Pat de Groot, 3 November 1982. 31 'to cool their bodies', see Paul R. Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, Darryl Wheye, 'Spread wing poses', Stanford University, 2008, www.web.stanford.edu. 13 31 'the haunts of sea-fowl', Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Pan Classics, 1975, 24. 32 'an uncongenial alien', ibid, 32.