The Kraken Wakes [antikvár]

RationaleliThe nearest iceberg looked firmly grounded. Waves, with the whole fetch of the Atlantic behind them, exploded upon it, just as they would upon solid rock. Further out there were other large bergs, also stranded by the falling tide, and looking like sudden white mountains. Here and there among them smaller ones were still afloat, with the wind and the current driving them slowly up the Channel. That morning there were more, I fancy, than we had ever before seen at one time. I paused to look at them. BUnding white crags in a blue sea.i.'I think,' I said, 'that I shall write an account of all this.*. 'You mean a long one, about the whole thing? A book?'.Phyllis asked.'Well, I don't suppose it will ever be a printed book, with stiff,covers and a cloth binding - but still, a book,' I agreed.''I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the writer;and his wife ever reads it,' she said.'There's a chance that someone else might. I've a feeling it ought to be done. After all, we know as much about the whole thing as anyone - in a general way. The specialists know more about their particular bits, of course, but, between us, we ought to be able to put together quite a picture.''Without references or records ?' she questioned. 'If anyone ever does read it, then he'll be able to have the pleasure of digging out the documentation - what's left of it.My idea is simply to give an account of how the whole thing has;appeared to me - to us.'r'Stick to "me" - you can't do it from two points of view,' she advised.She huddled her coat more closely round her. Her breath'/clouded in the cold air. We regarded the icebergs. There seemed, '