“She sank again into the salty water…into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, Beds in the East (1959)
“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands—alternately cool, warm, moist and dry—a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”
Source: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 5 (pp. 119-120)
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