The Kraken.
The flip side of perceiving books as places is that places can start becoming books. It is always a bit disconcerting when big sea mammals appear out of the breakers… like an extraordinary word has left its vast ocean page and hauled itself out onto the margin.
The Kraken in Tennyson’s Poetical Works, The Globe Edition, MacMillan and Co., 1899. Pastel and watercolour over on gesso.
