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two passages from ernest shackleton's journals (for madeline)

by elizabeth veldon

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this album is based upon two passages from shackleton's journals.

the first reads 'there is a tradition amongst seamen that the souls of old sailors, after death, occupy the bodies of penguins'

the second is the famous passage from south referred to in the notes of t. s. elliot's 'the wasteland':

'i know that during the long march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of south georgia it often seems to me that there where four, not three. and worsley and crean had the same idea. one feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe such things, but a record of our journeys would be incomplete without reference to a subject very near to our hearts.'

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released February 26, 2014

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elizabeth veldon UK

i am a sound artist and sort-of academic researching themes of labour and hierarchies in art.

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