on the seaside

..two the kinds of people I have been able to recognise so far (with all shades in between them):

I named the first of them the one of the "Compass People"; I see them standing , with a stick in one of their hands, tracing on the sand a perfect circle around their bodies, as far as their arm can reach. But as the wind blows, the sand moves, and the circle keeps on vanishing; so they restart from the beginning, over and over...

The second group of people, whom I call "the Cross People" , are exactly as the previous ones, but they don't carry any stick, they stand on the sand as well, but their arms are wide open, their heads seem to touch the North, their feets to push the South further down , their fingers showing the directions to the Est and the West. This is the best they can do.