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[moon_custafer]

The grey shape with the palaeolithic face
Was still the master of the longitudes.

(E.J. Pratt, The Titanic)

Comments

[larryhammer]

Why hadn't I known Pratt wrote a long poem about the Titanic? Because of course he would have.

[moon_custafer]

He was from Newfoundland! And, checking the dates, he would've been thirty in 1912.

ETA -- You've encountered his poem about Dunkirk, right?

[larryhammer]

Encountered, yes, but not read. I have read Last Spike, Brebeuf, and ... ah, dang, forgot the title, a WWII poem set on a merchant marine ship. (Quick Googling isn't helping me here, drat it.)

ETA: Ah, found it: Behind the Log.

[sabotabby]

I didn't know either, so thanks for that!

[sovay]

Was still the master of the longitudes.

Damn. I had wanted the CEO to survive to be sued into the stone age for tech-bro recklessness and I had not wanted the kid to have died.

[sovay]

a WWII poem set on a merchant marine ship.

Okay, I've read Pratt's The Titanic, but why haven't I read this one?

[larryhammer]

I don't know. It's around and about.