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Updated: June 20, 2025
Under exceptional conditions, exceptional flotsam and jetsam is tossed up into Consciousness, as in the case of that servant girl who spoke Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in her delirium, having unconsciously absorbed the same from overhearing the studies of her learned master many years before. Now, just as a conscious thought has an accompaniment of physical motion, so has a sub-conscious thought.
Under the blue haze of smoke that for a week has hung over this valley of the shadow of death the work which is to resurrect this stricken city has gone steadily forward. Here and there over the waste where Johnstown stood in its pride black smoke arises from the bonfires on which shattered house-walls, rafters, doors, broken furniture and all the flotsam and jetsam of the great flood is cast.
His habit of visualising inanimate things caused him to see as it were a pool between them at their feet, and from the word dropped into it ripples that came to his feet upon his margin of the pool and to her feet upon hers. He took the word away from its personal application. "I believe that's rather what I was thinking about when you came, Nona. About how we just go on flotsam.
Land is always near, and the flotsam and jetsam, do they not supply that smack of excitement if not the boisterous hope bereft of which life might seem "always afternoon?" These chronicles are toned from first to last by perceptions which came to the Beachcomber perceptions which lead, mayhap, to a subdued and sober estimate of the purpose and bearing of the pilgrimage of life.
The cattle came. The first week thirty herds passed the new ranch. It took riding. The dead-line was held, the flotsam cared for, and a hand was ever ready to point a herd or nurse the drag end. Open house was maintained. Every arriving foreman was tendered a horse, and left his benediction on the Beaver. The ranch proved a haven to man and beast.
Now, as already shown, it was the canoe with the girl dancing to destruction, now that final leap; then again it was that broken piece of flotsam by the drift-pile at the end of the gorge; and later, in some still reach far down the river, a dead girl, white-faced, but peaceful, like drowned Ophelia.
Here and there men were fighting with canes and fists; everywhere a fierce excitement raged, and the gendarmes sent thither by the King's Lieutenant to restore and maintain order were so much helpless flotsam in that tempestuous human ocean. There were cries of "To the Palais! To the Palais! Down with the assassins! Down with the nobles! To the Palais!"
He was eager to visit a coral-reef, and this atoll, stocked and planted only by the flotsam and jetsam of the seas, the winds, and migrating birds, offers to the naturalist a most delightful study; for here, progressing almost under his eyes, are the phenomena which have made Bermuda and other coral groups.
The winds seemed wilfully struggling for the house to snatch and wing it away into the drear Eternities of the night: and I could not but heave the sigh: 'Alas for us two poor waifs and castaways of our race, little bits of flotsam and seaweed-hair cast up here a moment, ah me, on this shore of the Ages, soon to be dragged back, O turgid Eternity, into thy abysmal gorge; and upon what strand who shall say? shall she next be flung, and I, divided then perhaps by all the stretch of the trillion-distanced astral gulf? And such a pity, and a wringing of the heart, seemed in things, that a tear fell from my eyes that ominous midnight.
If women have been slaves, what shall I say of children; of the little children in alleys and sub-cellars; the little children who turn pale when they hear their fathers' footsteps; little children who run away when they only hear their names called by the lips of a mother; little children the children of poverty, the children of crime, the children of brutality, wherever they are flotsam and jetsam upon the wild, mad sea of life my heart goes out to them, one and all.
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