Boca Grande y Boca Chica

Plymouth
Boca Grande y Boca Chica
Cartagena
Channel
Canal
Panama Canal
Cesar Franck 
Shofar
Horn
Caracol
Seine
Prow

Psalm28:1

[[A Psalm of David.]] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

The company started on a shoestring

 

“the gulf between the Victorian sensibility and our own”~~~Babette Deutsch

“The wind moving gently his great shock of voluminous white hair”~~~Melville D. Post

“A few shocks of corn in a corner of a fallow mead stood up as if alive.”~~~D.H. Lawrence

“Suddenly a few feet away the entire plate-glass window shivered into confetti.”~~~Ian Fleming 

 

“I am standingon the Pont des Arts in Paris. On one side of the Seine is the harmonious, reasonable façade of the Institute of France, built as a college in about 1670. On the other bank is the Louvre, built continuously from the Middle Ages to the nineteehth century: classical architecture at its most splendid and assured.”~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION: Ch 1

Monument to Franck at the Square Samuel-Rousseau, 7th arrondissement.

 "Nature assisted him in this effort, for it had made the city easy to defend: Cartagena stood in the middle of a strange island. Stretching some seven and a half miles along the coast of South America, with one shore beautiful, straight and smooth, and the other resembling an octopus with many arm- and leg-like peninsulas, with vast impenetrable swamps and unscalable cliffs, this island was designed by nature gone mad. To invade its one settlement, Cartagena, was almost impossible. Of course, when an adversary came at Cartagena from the Caribbean he found an approach that appeared both easy and promising, for at the southern tip of the octopus island waited a broad, beautiful entrance into the harbor leading to the city; Boca Grande it was called, Big Mouth. But its allure was deceptive, for it was extremely shallow; and what was worse, to keep out any enemy, Don Diego had commanded that ships be scuttled in the middle of the passage, which meant that not even an alien rowboat could penetrate."~~~James A. Michener : CARIBBEAN. Ch.4 The Spanish Lake

 

Chess: "Plymouth " "Boca Grande y Boca Chica" "Channel" "Canal" "Panama Canal" "Cartagena" "Cesar Franck " "Shofar" "Horn" "Caracol" "Seine" "Prow"