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March 3 - March 22, 2015
even as the ice began to entomb his tiny steam launch.
“Death, in a hundred ghastly shades, dogs the shadow of this phantom ship.”
“incessant friction”—a contrast between impetuosity and patient striving, between a love for adventure and a compulsion to accomplish something ambitious and sustained.
stultifying
temerity
insouciant
sinecure,
perspicacious
cynosure
delusion and a snare.”
stentorian
They had become little more than an accumulation of wounds moving over the ice.
He could see that these two raccoon-eyed wraiths had tasted the fumes of their own death.
