23rd june 2005

Over at geegaw there was mention of Geoffrey Hill, and it reminded me that a long time ago I'd noticed something (so much of the stuff on this site was thought of a long time ago, forgotten and re-remembered); that both he and Ted Hughes once related salmon to pigs:

And where the streams were salt and full
The tough pig-headed salmon strove,
Ramming the ebb, in the tide's pull,
To reach the steady hills above.

- Geoffrey Hill, Genesis

. . . she is rich. She is viewing her lands.
A hoard of king-cups spills from her folds, it blazes, it cannot be hidden.
A salmon, a sow of solid silver,
Bulges to glimpse it.

- Ted Hughes, The River in March

and I wondered if that connection had been made elsewhere.
Now along comes PubSub, which can in its own way help with queries like this, albeit searching the future rather than the past. Looks like I might have to get an RSS reader.

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