J. R. Carpenter
Issue 14 · Fall 2014
I. Generative (Classical)
II. Quotidian (1775)
1 January: entered the Southern Atlantick Ocean. landed on Staten Island
6 January: the Carpenters at work upon a spar we got at Norfolk Island
9 January: many dread to fall in with land. I am quite impartial
14 January: an island of ice turned out to be land wholly covered with snow
16 January: named an island Bird on account of the vast number upon it
17 January: not a tree or shrub to be seen, not even big enough to make a tooth-pick
20 January: this isle cannot produce ten thousand part of the ice we have seen.
either there must be more land, or else ice is formed without it
23 January: after two hours of thick fog, clear weather gave us a sight of 3 or 4 rocky islets
27 January: farther I did not intend to go, unless some certain signs of soon meeting with land
28 January : the ice islands which surrounded us showed a flat even surface.
some were two or three miles in circuit
31 January : the fog cleared away a little and we discovered land ahead.
3 rocky islets of considerable height, the outer-most terminated in a lofty peak like a Sugar Loaf
2 February: no more Cape Brandy or Arrack on board.
named an island Southern Thule, the most southern land yet discovered
6 February: set our course North. we were now not in a condition to undertake great things
8 February: this wind seems to conduct us nearer & nearer to the end of our career
21 February: it was no longer to be doubted. the ice hills had deceived us
III. Minimal (Recently)
don’t fret
sea wet
mist and haze
come inland
come hell or
high water
come home sick
come house wreck
come sea wrack and
ruin strewn ashore
wind lift
spin drift
gale blown
spray sown
storm seeds
spoon drift
moon lifts
far flung
low slung
sea lung
a frozen tide
a breath suspended
a plant of the borage family
sea lung wort
leaves with an oyster-like flavour
neither land nor sea nor vapour
impassable
impossible
impenetrable