It is the repository of our fondest dreams, but also of our worst nightmares. It's very like the unconscious, in that we hide things away in it that we don't want to know about. We tip things into it and pretend that we haven't, like sewerage and agricultural and industrial waste. He became violently ill after swimming in Bridport Bay, on England's south coast. But he remains hopeful.
Swimming is a mild obsession.
What I love about swimming is the meditative aspect of it. It gives you a terrific physical buzz. Once you've started to swim regularly you don't want to be without it. It's a kind of addiction. We all have this aquatic desire in us.