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His Bones are Coral is a 1955 thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning. It was published in the United States with the alternative title of Twist of the Knife. The title is a reference to William Shakespeare's Full fathom five from The Tempest.
Signore Maraccini, a marine biologist, offered him employment in his exploration of a coral reef and of course he met his daughter, Reta. Somewhere in life there is always the other person who, for each one of us, can drive out loneliness. For Howard, Reta was that person.
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Song: “Full fathom five thy father lies”. By William Shakespeare. (from The Tempest) Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change.
Dec 16, 2018 · Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.
In the song Ariel is singing about Ferdinand’s father having been transformed into something rich and strange by his immersion in the sea – his bones have become coral and his eyes have become pearls. The idea of a change brought about by being immersed in water is central to the meaning of the play, which is about redemption and forgiveness.
The Film. The 1970 film with Burt Reynolds and Silvia Pinal was directed by Samuel Fuller but then so much altered by the producers that he disowned the film. The hero, renamed Howartd Caine, is a reformed gun-runner rather than drug-smuggler.
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change. Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell. Selected cultural references.
