It’s the plunge that counts
Heathcote Williams: Waterlog by Roger Deakin, 19 August 1999
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey through Britain
by Roger Deakin.
Chatto, 320 pp., £15.99, May 1999,0 7011 6652 5 Show More
by Roger Deakin.
Chatto, 320 pp., £15.99, May 1999,
“... Analects, ‘it benefits all things and does not compete with them.’ Merlin turns the future king into a fish as part of his education in T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, and as a fish ‘he could do what men always wanted to do, that is fly. There is practically no difference between flying in water and flying in the air … It was like the dreams ... ”