of water keel-carven, these lovely eyes of desire
drag the ship to her doom.
--Simonides of Ceos
(translated by Richmond Lattimore)
-- I like the description, the phrasing and the images themselves, but I also like the paradox. The water is calm, and yet the ship goes to its doom.
All for love, or desire, which isn't the same thing, is it? --
(TV screen-shot from John Stockwell's Into the Blue.)
Somehow, this juxtaposition is working for me, though perhaps an eye-to-eye shot of Sophia Loren would work well too: Boy On A Dolphin.
