1
00:00:02,990 --> 00:00:09,000
Mark. Hey.

2
00:00:09,010 --> 00:00:16,570
We were only semi-literate ourselves. We meant to head for Mao, not where the Blessed Kevin miscarried us.

3
00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,380
A rank bad place with no words at all.

4
00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:33,700
It was about the year dot before my brain and the broken ice before column and Camelot, whose annals skate over our failed attempt on Mark.

5
00:00:34,510 --> 00:00:43,030
When the call came, I didn't hear it to rid ourselves of the Ulster roof and cake mentality and work abroad.

6
00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:51,549
So we did go in washtub Caracas and hold this show for an hour or so on a black upturned

7
00:00:51,550 --> 00:00:58,870
platter of rock stained with sea lichen and scummy pools of barge flies and crap water.

8
00:01:00,370 --> 00:01:04,850
No trees then. No welcoming men or women either.

9
00:01:06,050 --> 00:01:14,390
But out on a Spurs end, we spotted a sham temple being a few upright poles fashioned from driftwood,

10
00:01:15,140 --> 00:01:23,030
which from this straggled over to them seemed without a text or rune to vent their purpose to have their say in fish.

11
00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,350
That's one of our symbols, said Kevin. Slowly.

12
00:01:32,060 --> 00:01:39,180
The first was crude. Like Holyrood, a shock hung where the Christ might be.

13
00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:48,920
The cross beam of the second wave. White and queasy was split three times by dolphins, leaps and falls,

14
00:01:49,790 --> 00:01:57,380
while each of the mounting horizontals of the next carved with a rogue's dash or abandon was a fish beam.

15
00:01:57,980 --> 00:02:07,490
The worst given the arc of a catfish. So closer to we saw how this was worked from a lower jaw, the bass jaw of an ox.

16
00:02:09,460 --> 00:02:16,720
These three might seem the project of a class of kids, except for the cunning which had placed the group of crosses.

17
00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:25,390
If we call them crosses in silhouette against the setting sun, her looks in amber or the paler moon.

18
00:02:27,750 --> 00:02:39,270
The fourth was set apart. It wore the red back half of a toy tractor fixed to the neck of a pole and strapped to the spine.

19
00:02:39,660 --> 00:02:42,780
A thermos meant to last the afternoon.

20
00:02:45,170 --> 00:02:52,610
The can beneath. It had been plugged once with a plastic helmet that was bleached by now from orange to lime or yellow.

21
00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:57,800
And over the hole was thrown. A mangled dress of fishnet and floats.

22
00:03:00,580 --> 00:03:05,350
Okay. So a fifth with his second site and wasn't telling.

23
00:03:06,750 --> 00:03:09,870
Only back to the boats. It's no good.

24
00:03:10,350 --> 00:03:14,520
We brought the Word of God to those in hiding here, and they don't want it.

25
00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:27,290
So we sounded in reply the child's note of feigned frustration, masking the relief our code forbids us to have felt or having felt express.

26
00:03:28,850 --> 00:03:33,350
Tell as we sucked wicker boats and heels clear of that shingle.

27
00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:39,710
He struck up from the front, bellowing out our founders lesson study the mountains.

28
00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,450
Strange how borrowed prose would fill him full of himself.

29
00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:51,440
Study of the mountains. Then when you fancy that you know the mountains, you can learn the stars.

30
00:03:53,290 --> 00:03:59,050
Justin. Kevin. None of us rowing could see past the ground horizon of your neck.

31
00:04:00,130 --> 00:04:03,520
And that's the school got up. You couldn't hear half that.

32
00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:10,060
We aimed in reply until the double beating of salt and rain on our hands and face.

33
00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:14,740
We sank back in the shape kept at the oars.

34
00:04:16,450 --> 00:04:19,960
But we will expect something to sustain us soon.

35
00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:30,090
Beyond the plough and the spirits. In the meantime, here's to the gay goddess as starting mother of false starts.