Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:06:33 EST

From: Monkmag Monkmag[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: sea change



In a message dated 10/24/97 6:57:36 AM, you wrote:



It's an allusion to Shakespeare's Tempest: "Full fathom five thy

father lies;/Of his bones are coral made:/Those are pearls that

were his eyes:/Nothing of him that doth fade,/But doth suffer a

sea-change/Into something rich and strange." (I.ii)



Here it means 'a change brought about by the sea', but it's

now used to mean 'any major transformation'.



Jesse Sheidlower

jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com



I also remember a similar line spoken by Daedalus in Joyce's Ulysses, which

probably refers back to the earlier Tempest reference.



Monk