Jonathan Eaton's Blog - Posts Tagged "sirens"

Waves beat against the side of the ship, the oars dip into the water, seagulls wheel and cry overhead–but the sailor, rowing, hears nothing. He turns his head to see how the captain is doing. The captain looks awful. He’s struggling so hard to free himself that he’s bleeding where the ropes have cut into him. He’s knocking the back of his head against the mast, his mouth is open, his tongue is flopping around, he’s drooling, the veins of his neck are bulging out, and tears are streaming down his cheeks. The sailor, his ears full of beeswax, can’t hear a thing, and thinks it’s kind of nice for a change, this silence.

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