They Became What They Beheld

They Became What They BeheldThe Islander"We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish." John Culkin.It's the outsider who sees the environment. The islander sees the outline of the distant mainland. When he goes ashore, he commands, for he alone sees form and process.Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, from Ireland; Eliot, from Missouri; Pound, from Idaho, were the innovators of 20th Century English. Beaverbrook, from the Maritimes; Luce, from a missionary family in China; Th...