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Footnote: Before A Late Night Swim, You Have To Take The Plunge
Athletes' concerns---like style, endurance, distance, strength and form
do not apply now. You think you will never more feel warm
again: and this, itself, brings on a fierce, horrific panic.
Against the starlit sky, that huge, upright hulk---once Titanic---
is just about to break, and then plunge down
into the depth while, on this surface, you, and others, will soon drown.
Meanwhile, one of the few lifeboats, with all seats filled, convey
that chief executive of White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay,
who will board the Carpathia, and sip hot coffee, with a swirling swarm
of thoughts upon his mind---what he should, or ought not to, say
when, safe on dry land, he must answer questions in a fray
of hearings, newspaper reports, demands for explanations,
with some implicit insults that become harsh accusations.
Starward
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