The opening line of this book is: "WHAT YOU NOTICE in the month
of May is the tiles, like roof tiles but white, stacked by
thousands at one point after another along the shore." The last
line on page 203 is: "BENEFICIENT Oyster, good to taste, good
for the stomach and the soul, grant us the blessing of your
further mystery." In between these 200 pages concerning oysters,
Eleanor Clark wrote a definitive classic on the amalgamation of
geography, human history, ecology, and commerce. One reads much
of the mystery or the character of this mollusk at this Breton
coast. It expresses itself through the human being just as it
does through its own. These oysters of Locmariaquer can be
appreciated or thought of in two ways. How they are farmed in
this northwestern Breton Coast can be thought of as being
incidental. The important thing, some argues, this is a place of
scenary, good oyster eating, and tourism. Or one can see with an
understanding eye, as the author wants the reader to see, at the
landscape. This Locmari