Today was the presentation by the Dry Salvages group, who continued on with the impressive Four Quartets dissertations. The element which this quartet is aligned with is water, like Burnt Norton was air and East Coker was earth. I was particularly struck by the distinction poetically made between rivers and the ocean: rivers are inside of us, the ocean is outside of us.

I also loved the parallel between the labyrinth(which always for only one through way, though it appears otherwise)and the river, which takes us down the path toward our destination, which if we are on the river of life, is Death. But this is alright, because if all rivers flow to the ocean, which is outside us but which we all come to eventually, than it is also the return to that which we came from originally anyway. I just now realized this as I was typing this blog, so if it isn't more cogently phrased this is why.

When Kari is more motivated and with a bit more time(but what is that anyway?), she may blog about the metaphorical and spiritual significance of rivers in literature.