The Best Australian Science Writing 2014 (2014)
“No one can say where it has come from, what creaturely skull once held it. It shows signs of having been plied out with a knife. The eyeball has a dark blue pupil, surrounded by an egg-blue iris, set in a steely blue sphere. ‘It was very, very fresh,’ declares the beachcomber Gino Covacci, who found the eyeball, rocking in the surf. ‘It was still bleeding.’ He took it home in a bag, and put it in his fridge. Then he called the police. In footage he mimes holding the blue eyeball, standing atop ...a mass of tumbled jetsam; weeds, netting, shredded consumer goods. He stares aghast into the open cup of his palms. The camera pans out to the indecipherable sea. Dazzle and distance. What unfinished animal patrols there, sweeping the deeps with its blue, cyclopean beam?
* * * * * Blue, as the American author and activist Rebecca Solnit puts it, is the ‘colour of distance … the colour of where you are not’. Landmarks seen from afar, scenes from the softening edge of the terrain, indigo gloom spooled in ocean caves.MoreLess
* * * * * Blue, as the American author and activist Rebecca Solnit puts it, is the ‘colour of distance … the colour of where you are not’. Landmarks seen from afar, scenes from the softening edge of the terrain, indigo gloom spooled in ocean caves.MoreLess
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