The hilarious beach duo Flotsam and
Jetsam, "who shred the language as fearlessly as they cut the waves at Malibu" (New York Times Book Review), were particularly entertaining.
This is the differential equation describing the concentration of
jetsam as a function of bed height.
Flotsam is the wreckage of a ship or its cargo that floats in on the waves;
jetsam is items discarded or thrown overboard, perhaps to lighten a boat in distress; and lagan is goods or wreckage lying on the ocean floor, which also sometimes washes ashore.
What of the lost souls (nearly everyone, according to Naipaul) in Anguilla, "a tiny colony set adrift, part of the
jetsam of an empire, a near-primitive people suddenly returned to a free state, their renewed or continuing exploitation"?
However, robotic underwater vehicles now under development (Electronic
Jetsam) will also be able to access arctic waters, he notes, so the use of marine mammals as data collectors might be short-lived.
Experimental in every sense of the word, Orchid
Jetsam defies the very convention of the novel.
As a result, theological books are at premium for Burma's seminaries and Bible colleges, with libraries pieced together from the flotsam and
jetsam of what happens to be available, mostly books left over from the pre-1966 days of the missionaries, or carried in by visitors and returning travelers, he said.
As for the stock parts that are the flotsam and
jetsam of Saleen's production system, the company has adjusted its approach over time to that potential source of waste.
Customers entering the Bedspread Kingdom were met by the king himself, often dressed in royal robes and crown, holding court over a melange of bedspreads, off-price textiles and other flotsam and
jetsam.
We are not speaking here of a profound religious revelation" but of "a catch-basin of religious flotsam and
jetsam, a vast undigested (and largely indigestible) pudding of ideas, beliefs, feelings, and practices that appeals largely to those who no longer possess, or who have lost, the discerning eye that orthodoxy demands."
Keep in mind that almost all flotsam and
jetsam along the banks of navigable streams in the U.S.
Amid all the sci-fi spectacles and other
jetsam and flotsam of summer