But , he went on , " getting to isle derniere is a chore , then and now . " Basically , he said , the trip involves driving deep into the louisiana marshes and getting into a boat with someone " you hope knows the way . It is easy get lost in the marsh channels . "
Whether we as readers came of age in the americas , the antipodes or elsewhere in the far-flung commonwealth , the poems and novels we encountered in the last half of the 20th century came first and foremost from shakespeare 's scepter 'd isle .
Like the emerald isle , they have bitten the bullet of " internal devaluation " , regaining competitiveness by cutting wages and prices , rather than taking the easy option of depreciating the currency , or borrowing recklessly as greece has .