In a place where steamers and tall ships move with difficulty to their ports, cruise ships now shimmer and display, carrying cargoes of sweet-toothed retirees, conventioneers and honeymooners. The ocean seems quite dissimilar from the situation of the wasteland (Mark, 2003). The ocean is inexplicably unfathomable and constitutes old sailor wisdom plus triumphs and disappointments of colonial... read more
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