text:  The image the memorial the record which for me is derived from a palimpsest as to one great fact in our human being and which immediately I will show you is but too repellent of laughter; or even if laughter _had_ been possible it would have been such laughter as often times is thrown off from the fields of ocean[10]--laughter that hides or that seems to evade mustering tumult; foam-bells that weave garlands of phosphoric radiance for one moment round the eddies of gleaming abysses; mimicries of earth-born flowers that for the eye raise phantoms of gaiety as oftentimes for the ear they raise echoes of fugitive laughter mixing with the ravings and choir-voices of an angry sea