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Episode 21: Adrift

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Nov 16, 2015
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INSIGHT

Fear Of Open Water

  • Aaron Mankey admits a deep fear of open water despite writing about horror.
  • He imagines cold dark depths and shipwrecks beneath him.
INSIGHT

Shipwrecks As Cultural Turning Points

  • Shipwrecks appear across global literature from Homer to ancient Egyptians.
  • Aaron links shipwrecks to cultural risk and historical turning points.
ANECDOTE

The Frozen Whaler Legend

  • Aaron recounts a legend of a whaler found frozen in ice off Greenland.
  • Boarding crews found the dead frozen where they sat and a log with final entries.
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