“Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.”
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“The Coral Strand too is silvery, glimmery, moon-pale, and it crunches underfoot pleasantly; pick up a handful of its beach and you see it is composed of tiny twiglike bits of something like unglazed pottery, white, cream-coloured, pale green or faintly violet-flushed. This is not strictly coral, but fragments broken off a coraline alga.. ”