Nitrates and phosphates for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home,... the world will die a little more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despair. Hostage is a man hanging b...y his fingernails over the edge of chaos, feeling his fingers slowly straightening. Hostage is the humiliating stripping away of every sense and fibre of body and mind and spirit that make us what we are. Hostage is a mutant creation filled with fear, self-loathing, guilt and death-wishing. But he is a man, a rare, unique and beautiful creation of which these things are no part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now launch the small ship, now as the body dies and life departs, launch out, the fragile soul... in the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith with its store of food and little cooking pans and change of clothes,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!... Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay, On sluggish, lonesome waters, anchor'd near the shore,... An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done, After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight, Lies rusting, mouldering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »