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getting away from it all
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from BBC world news:
"An Indonesian man has been found floating on tree branches in the Indian Ocean, eight days after a devastating tsunami struck the region." |
close your eyes and imagine sailing past a sun-crazed, half-starved, broken-hearted, semi-naked man waving frantically from a primitive raft of twigs, adrift at sea, over 100 miles from the nearest landmass. (i.e. well beyond any possible visible horizon).
as it turns out, lack of imagination isn't an obstacle for visualizing this. the merchant tanker that discovered this guy was japanese... and (go figure) they had a camera.
the article goes on to report how this [un]*lucky soul persevered, watching as friends and family were selectively swallowed by the deep blue, one after another, until only he remained...
floating there, in an incomprehensibly limitless ether; a single soul sandwiched between 100 square miles of featureless sea and sky. floating there, suspended in the profound silence of that last goodbye.
imagining this, i'm afraid, is a substantially more difficult prospect.