Night on ship – windowless cabin, dark – artificial light through slats in door – no sense of day or night. Gleaming endless corridors, red & green arrows – boat-drill – life-savers – shuffle-board players – ship Newspaper & daily events card – throbbing – coffin-like bunks – straight narrow, tightly made beds – compact, but crowding – if one person opens a suitcase lid, everybody else has to get in bed – sense of waking deep in a coffin – early morning light on deck – cold, windy, overcast rows of empty deck chairs – blue & orange zig-zag patterns – deep-black-green waves directly under ship
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