Canto XII/1 This frontispiece, culled from the seaside postcards mentioned in the note to Canto VIII/1, continues the parallel of the various immersions mentioned in the poem with Baptism: hence the use of a water image as source. The colour is here changed to indicate a baptism in blood (one remembers that such a blood baptism linked to human violence still survives in the 'blooding' of the first-time foxhunter). The same image is used as the initial illustration to Canto XXII where the baptism takes place in tar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.