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The image of water - including ‘the stream of Gothic’ - is common in the notebooks and in Stones of Venice, and is continued on this page in the notion of ‘currents’ and ‘eddies’ However, the reference to The Tempest at Notebook M p.76 cannot be accidental, and is reinforced by the capital letters. The notion of the transformation of a drowned corpse into something ‘rich and strange’ is not explicit in the description of the house in Corte del Remer at Notebook M pp.80f, but the mood is similar in the account of the damp and the rot and colour. Death, water and beauty are also associated in the reference to ‘new glory arising from the foam’. Venice is Venus, engendered by the foam from the severed genitals of Uranus.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]