She compared the title national poet for Wales to the conch shell in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

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She points out how Ms. Abercrombie added Surrealist elements: a wise or perhaps not wise owl, a phallic lighthouse and a conch shell, which refer to sexuality, according to Ms. Fort.

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As we turn up the road through the village that clings to the hem of Tikse's sprawling skirt, we hear the-plaintive, summoning blasts on the traditional (yes, in the Himalayas) conch-shell horn.

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