Tuesday, 13 January 2009

The coarse art of sailing



…the idyll was marred by the appearance round the southern headland of a small, waspish-looking vessel, standing slowly out on a course parallel to our own. It happened that I saw her first, and drew my commander’s attention to her with a sailor-like hail of: ‘Jesus! Look at that!’



Flash For Freedom!, p.91, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.




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