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The luminosity of the ocean counts as one of those gorgeous occurences in Nature that give rise to wonderment, even when one has watched it return nightly for months… indescribably glorious is the spectacle that a pod of frolicking dolphins create in the tropical seas by the dark of night… their paths traced out in sparks and intense light… When we bathed at Cumaná on the Gulf of Cariaco and walked about naked in the pleasant night air along the lonely shore, various places on our bodies continued to glow… During my voyage across to South America, I occasionally placed a Medusa on a tin plate. ![]() |