The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.
They somehow believe that God, who has taken them out of Egypt, led them through the Reed Sea, spoke to them from Mount Sinai, and provided them with food and water, is a localized god who cannot be present in the land of Canaan.
In this case it has turned land into sea, metaphorically speaking.
He was eager to expunge other voices from his verse, and would have been content, were it only possible, to silence his own voice as well -- allowing the cliffs and clouds and rolling sea to speak for themselves.
Further, sperm whales are known to kill and devour Architeuthis, and one of the most graphic accounts of the sea serpents speaks of it as in conflict with a whale around which it had thrown two coils and which it ultimately dragged below the surface.
When Beethoven exclaimed that to do him justice, the master's name should have been not Bach (brook) but Meer (the sea), he spoke not only of the surpassing abundance and diversity of more than a thousand compositions, but also of the creative power embodied in this supreme exponent of the most widely extended family of professional musicians ever.
"When I was a child," he said, "my mother and I spent summers at a seaside town in Nova Scotia, a town called Clementsport, and every summer an old man would catch me a sea gull for a pet, and I sometimes used to have the impression that my sea gull was speaking to me, or trying to.
He just went on submerged in his sea of bees, speaking with them in an inaccessible universe.
This was most apparent to me at the United Nations' Paris Climate Summit in 2015, where I witnessed a sea of men speaking on and deciding the fate of our climate among a handful of women.
