That's quite a respectable shot under the circumcises. However, they look more like the Wet Salvages to me. Is DRY some kind of transformation of the German DREI meaning 3?
P.
Peter

"Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I read the article by following your link before I got a chance to read it
>in the local paper. In the paper edition of the Globe there were some other
>titles used:
>   Eliot On The Rocks
>   T.S. Eliot Made Me Sick
>
>I placed a photo I took of the Dry Salvages on my website:
>   http://www.theworld.com/~raparker/temp/salvages.jpg
>It isn't great. It was taken from shore with a point and shoot digital
>camera with the zoom on maximum and no tripod.
>
>Also in the Ideas section of the paper was an interview of the author of
>"Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem."
>   When the classroom rang with poetry
>   Catherine Robson traces what we lost — and gained — when kids stopped
>reciting out loud
>  
>http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/10/13/when-classroom-rang-with-poetry/j7gpOJYfLtte4FriHat9dL/story.html
>
>
>On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 07:03:33 -0700, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>A pilgrimage to T.S. Eliot’s Dry Salvages 
>By James Parker 
>The Boston Globe
>October 14, 2012 
>
>excerpt
>
>"The Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages—is a group of rocks, with a
>beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Salvages is
>pronounced to rhyme with assuages. Groaner: a whistling buoy.”
>
>So runs the little note at the beginning of T.S. Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages,”
>third poem in his sequence Four Quartets. The note is a poem in itself,
>really: factual-sounding at first, nearly pedantic, a miniature lecture (on
>etymology, pronunciation, definition) that nonetheless deepens on every side
>into shivery Eliotic resonance. He could have used pages, our poet, or
>rages—but no, it had to be the King James-y assuages. Suffering and succor.
>The name of the rocks themselves: aridity, salvation. And floating out there
>somewhere, the hopeless, enduring, sad old groaner.
>
>http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/10/13/pilgrimage-eliot-dry-salvages/DvyPv2qhFlK7dWQSGvAuHO/story.html
>
>
>a reading that is closest to my heart 
>
>CR