日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 60 I awoke once during the night. I pushed the canopy aside and looked out. The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the nig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 59 Alone or not, lost or not, I was thirsty and hungry. I pulled on the rope. There was a slight tension. As soon as I lessened my grip on it, it slid out, and the distance between the lifeboat and the raft increased. So the lifeboat drifted... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 58 I pulled out the survival manual. Its pages were still wet. I turned them carefully. The manual was written by a British Royal Navy commander. It contained a wealth of practical information on surviving at sea after a shipwreck. It includ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 57 It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness. He was looking at me intently. After a ti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 56 I must say a word about fear. It is lifes only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest sp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 55 Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and tr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 54 It rained all night. I had a horrible, sleepless time of it. It was noisy. On the rain catcher the rain made a drumming sound, and around me, coming from the darkness beyond, it made a hissing sound, as if I were at the centre of a great... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 53 I slept all morning. I was roused by anxiety. That tide of food, water and rest that flowed through my weakened system, bringing me a new lease on life, also brought me the strength to see how desperate my situation was. I awoke to the re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 52 After a thorough investigation, I made a complete list: - 192 tablets of anti-seasickness medicine - 124 tin cans of fresh water, each containing 500 millilitres, so 62 litres in all - 32 plastic vomit bags - 31 cartons of emergency ratio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 51 But that first time I had a good look at the lifeboat I did not see the detail I wanted. The surface of the stern and side benches was continuous and unbroken, as were the sides of the buoyancy tanks. The floor lay flat against the hull;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 50 It was three and a half feet deep, eight feet wide and twenty-six feet long, exactly. I know because it was printed on one of the side benches in black letters. It also said that the lifeboat was designed to accommodate a maximum of thirt... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 49 In the morning I could not move. I was pinned by weakness to the tarpaulin. Even thinking was exhausting. I applied myself to thinking straight. At length, as slowly as a caravan of camels crossing a desert, some thoughts came together. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 48 Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error. A panther was terrorizing the Khulna district of Bangladesh, just outside the Sundarbans. It had recently carried off a little girl. All that was found of her was a tiny hand with a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 47 The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that looked like bunched-up, dirty cotton sheets. The sea had not changed. It heaved the lifeboat up and down in a regular motion. The zebra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 46 Clouds that gathered where ships were supposed to appear, and the passing of the day, slowly did the job of unbending my smile. It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 45 I was cold. It was a distracted observation, as if it didnt concern me. Daybreak came. It happened quickly, yet by imperceptible degrees. A corner of the sky changed colours. The air began filling with light. The calm sea opened up around... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 44 The sun climbed through the sky, reached its zenith, began to come down. I spent the entire day perched on the oar, moving only as much as was necessary to stay balanced. My whole being tended towards the spot on the horizon that would ap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 43 The last trace I saw of the ship was a patch of oil glimmering on the surface of the water. I was certain I wasnt alone. It was inconceivable that the Tsimtsum should sink without eliciting a peep of concern. Right now in Tokyo, in Panama... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 42 She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely the Virgin Mary. The rising sun was behind her. Her flaming hair looked stunning. I cried, Oh blessed Great Mother, Pondicherry fertility goddess, provider of milk an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-23 Chapter 41 The elements allowed me to go on living. The lifeboat did not sink. Richard Parker kept out of sight. The sharks prowled but did not lunge. The waves splashed me but did not pull me off. I watched the ship as it disappeared with much burb... 阅读全文>>