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April 11, 2012

WORLD’S LARGEST METAPHOR HITS ICE-BERG

“TITANIC, REPRESENTATION OF MAN’S HUBRIS, SINKS IN NORTH ATLANTIC. 1,500 DEAD IN SYMBOLIC TRAGEDY.”
Then there were the poems. For a while, there was such a glut that the Times was moved to print a warning: “To write about the Titanic a poem worth printing requires that the author should have something more than paper, pencil, and a strong feeling that the disaster was a terrible one.” --Why Do We Love the Titanic? : The New Yorker

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 11, 2012 7:49 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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