"The pilots were not sailors but waiters"
"I have always been scared of those boats, but my girlfriend kept on saying that it was romantic, and I gave in."
"There were not enough lifeboats. The pilots were not sailors but waiters who had no idea how to maneuver and kept on having us turning in circles. It was the first and certainly the last cruise of my life."
Posted by Ann Althouse via David Foster Wallace, ships, survival
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