日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 87 One of my favourite methods of escape was what amounts to gentle asphyxiation. I used a piece of cloth that I cut from the remnants of a blanket. I called it my dream rag. I wet it with sea water so that it was soaked but not dripping. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 86 Richard Parker, a ship! I had the pleasure of shouting that once. I was overwhelmed with happiness. All hurt and frustration fell away and I positively blazed with joy. Weve made it! Were saved! Do you understand, Richard Parker? Were sav... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 85 Once there was lightning. The sky was so black, day looked like night. The downpour was heavy. I heard thunder far away. I thought it would stay at that. But a wind came up, throwing the rain this way and that. Right after, a white splint... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 84 I was on the tarpaulin, wrapped in a blanket, sleeping and dreaming and awakening and daydreaming and generally passing the time. There was a steady breeze. From time to time spray was blown off the crest of a wave and wet the boat. Richa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 83 The storm came on slowly one afternoon. The clouds looked as if they were stumbling along before the wind, frightened. The sea took its cue. It started rising and falling in a manner that made my heart sink. I took in the solar stills and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 82 I kept rainwater and the water I collected from the solar stills in the locker, out of Richard Parkers sight, in the three 50-litre plastic bags. I sealed them with string. Those plastic bags wouldnt have been more precious to me had they... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 81 I know my survival is hard to believe. When I think back, I can hardly believe it myself. My crude exploitation of Richard Parkers weak sea legs is not the only explanation. There is another: I was the source of food and water. Richard Pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 80 Of all the dorados, I remember one in particular, a special dorado. It was early morning on a cloudy day, and we were in the midst of a storm of flying fish. Richard Parker was actively swatting at them. I was huddled behind a turtle shel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 79 There were sharks every day, mainly makos and blue sharks, but also oceanic whitetips, and once a tiger shark straight from the blackest of nightmares. Dawn and dusk were their favourite times. They never seriously troubled us. On occasio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 78 There were many skies. The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and billowy on top. The sky was completely cloudless, of a blue quite shattering to the senses. The sky was a heavy, suffocating blanket of gre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 77 As the cartons of survival rations diminished, I reduced my intake till I was following instructions exactly, holding myself to only two biscuits every eight hours. I was continuously hungry. I thought about food obsessively. The less I h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 76 I got into the habit of cleaning up after Richard Parker. As soon as I became aware that he had had a bowel movement, I went about getting to it, a risky operation involving nudging his feces my way with the gaff and reaching for them fro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 75 On the day when I estimated it was Mothers birthday, I sang Happy Birthday to her out loud. 第七十五章 在我估计是母亲生日的那一天，我大声对她唱了生日快乐... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 74 I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances - solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing wher... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 73 My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time. Alas, there was no scripture in the lifeboat. I was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 72 In my case, to protect myself from Richard Parker while I trained him, I made a shield with a turtle shell. I cut a notch on each side of the shell and connected them with a length of rope. The shield was heavier than I would have liked,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 71 To those who should ever find themselves in a predicament such as I was in, I would recommend the following program: 1. Choose a day when the waves are small but regular. You want a sea that will put on a good show when your lifeboat is b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 70 Butchering a turtle was hard work. My first one was a small hawksbill. It was its blood that tempted me, the good, nutritious, salt-free drink promised by the survival manual. My thirst was that bad. I took hold of the turtles shell and g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 69 On many nights I was convinced I saw a light in the distance. Each time I set off a flare. When I had used up the rocket flares, I expended the hand flares. Were they ships that failed to see me? The light of rising or setting stars bounc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-31 Chapter 68 My sleep pattern changed. Though I rested all the time, I rarely slept longer than an hour or so at a stretch, even at night. It was not the ceaseless motion of the sea that disturbed me, nor the wind; you get used to those the way you ge... 阅读全文>>