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    The Purse

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    The document describes a scene of sardine fishermen using purse seine nets at night to catch schools of fish. It discusses the process of a lookout spotting the fish, circling them with the boat and net, and then purging the bottom of the net to haul it in full of caught fish. It reflects on the beauty but also terror of this process and how modern society has made humanity interdependent yet vulnerable.

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    The document describes a scene of sardine fishermen using purse seine nets at night to catch schools of fish. It discusses the process of a lookout spotting the fish, circling them with the boat and net, and then purging the bottom of the net to haul it in full of caught fish. It reflects on the beauty but also terror of this process and how modern society has made humanity interdependent yet vulnerable.

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    The document describes a scene of sardine fishermen using purse seine nets at night to catch schools of fish. It discusses the process of a lookout spotting the fish, circling them with the boat and net, and then purging the bottom of the net to haul it in full of caught fish. It reflects on the beauty but also terror of this process and how modern society has made humanity interdependent yet vulnerable.

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    The document describes a scene of sardine fishermen using purse seine nets at night to catch schools of fish. It discusses the process of a lookout spotting the fish, circling them with the boat and net, and then purging the bottom of the net to haul it in full of caught fish. It reflects on the beauty but also terror of this process and how modern society has made humanity interdependent yet vulnerable.

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    THE PURSE-SEINE ROBINSON JEFFERS

    Our sardine fshermen work at night in the dark


    o the moon! da"#ight or moon#ight
    The" $ou#d not te## where to s%read the net&
    una'#e to see the %hos%hores$en$e o the
    shoa#s o fsh(
    The" work northward rom )ontere"& $oasting
    Santa *ru+! o, New -ear.s Point or o,
    Pigeon Point
    The #ook-out man wi## see some #akes o mi#k-$o#or
    #ight on the sea.s night-%ur%#e! he %oints&
    and the he#msman
    Turns the dark %row& the motor'oat $ir$#es the
    g#eaming shoa# and drits out her seine-net(
    The" $#ose the $ir$#e
    /nd %urse the 'ottom o the net& then with great
    #a'or hau# it in(
    I $annot te## "ou
    How 'eautiu# the s$ene is& and a #itt#e terri'#e&
    then& when the $rowded fsh
    0now the" are $aught& and wi#d#" 'eat rom one wa##
    to the other o their $#osing destin" the
    %hos%hores$ent
    1ater to a %oo# o 2ame& ea$h 'eautiu# s#ender 'od"
    sheeted with 2ame& #ike a #i3e ro$ket
    / $omet.s tai# wake o $#ear "e##ow 2ame! whi#e outside
    the narrowing
    F#oats and $ordage o the net great sea-#ions $ome u%
    to wat$h& sighing in the dark! the 3ast wa##s
    o night
    Stand ere$t to the stars(
    4ate#" I was #ooking rom a night mountain-to%
    On a wide $it"& the $o#ored s%#endor& ga#a5ies o #ight6
    how $ou#d I he#% 'ut re$a## the seine-net
    7athering the #uminous fsh8 I $annot te## "ou how
    'eautiu# the $it" a%%eared& and a #itt#e terri'#e(
    I thought& 1e ha3e geared the ma$hines and #o$ked a## together
    into inter-de%enden$e! we ha3e 'ui#t the great $ities! now
    There is no es$a%e( 1e ha3e gathered 3ast %o%u#ations in$a%a'#e
    o ree sur3i3a#& insu#ated
    From the strong earth& ea$h %erson in himse# he#%#ess& on a##
    de%endent( The $ir$#e is $#osed& and the net
    Is 'eing hau#ed in( The" hard#" ee# the $ords drawing& "et
    the" shine a#read"( The ine3ita'#e mass-disasters
    1i## not $ome in our time nor in our $hi#dren.s& 'ut we
    and our $hi#dren
    )ust wat$h the net draw narrower& go3ernment take a##
    %owers--or re3o#ution& and the new go3ernment
    Take more than a##& add to ke%t 'odies ke%t sou#s--or anar$h"&
    the mass-disasters(
    These things are Progress!
    9o "ou mar3e# our 3erse is trou'#ed or rowning& whi#e it kee%s
    its reason8 Or it #ets go& #ets the mood 2ow
    In the manner o the re$ent "oung men into mere h"steria&
    s%#intered g#eams& $ra$k#ed #aughter( But the" are
    :uite wrong(
    There is no reason or ama+ement6 sure#" one a#wa"s knew
    that $u#tures de$a"& and #ie.s end is death(
    Norton /ntho#og" o Poetr"

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