Fatal attraction - writers` and artists` obsession with the sea
(WorldNews Environment)

`The sea has many voices / Many gods and many voices,` TS Eliot wrote. `We cannot think of a time that is oceanless.` `In civilisations without boats,` Michel Foucault observed, `dreams dry up.` It is, plainly, a fluid state, a place of transition and transmutation; the place from which we all came. In the womb we swim in salty water, sprouting residual fins and tails and rudimentary...