‘I don’t want to “other” the strangeness. I want to accept it and recognise it. One of the first things that excited me – really excited me, and I can remember this vividly – about the ocean, was the knowledge that it already contains everything. It’s like you said earlier: the stuff of the body – of every body, of every living thing – it’s still there.’ ‘The body before it was cast,’ he said.
