Date:  Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:24:54 -0500
From:  Jesse T Sheidlower <jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM>
Subject: Re: sea change

>
> <<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'.>>
Monkmag writes:
>
> I also remember a similar line spoken by Daedalus in Joyce's Ulysses, which
> probably refers back to the earlier Tempest reference.

   "A seachange this, brown eyes saltblue. Seadeath, mildest of all
deaths known to man. Old Father Ocean. Prix de Paris: beware of
imitations. Just you give it a fair trial. We enjoyed ourselves immensely."

A few paragraphs earlier, he riffs on some of the "full fathom five"
stuff.

Jesse Sheidlower
<jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com>