Richard writes:
Angle Tarn, Friday 22nd August
Set off midday and after a long, and in places steep climb arrive at Angle tarn – Paul is up for swimming the diameter of the near circular tarn – I can only manage a large cord – during swimming altered thoughts occurred – thoughts ‘outside’ the normal pattern, – imagining the water below, occasionally looking down and forming an image of the subscape – visualizing the contours of the tarn floor – the shape assumed by the mass of water through which we were swimming – a shape which, were it to be inverted, would assume the contours of a mountain – a desire to see and sculpt this nonexistent mountain – a desire to see the varied underwater landscapes set out in this way as a chain of conjectural mountains – how to do it – then the cold and need to return – I ‘cash in’ my thoughts and we swim back.
