1 | "I know what it's like to jump off and swim off a boat in the gulf," he said. | |
2 | With a skillful movement he rounded the small fishing-boat. | |
3 | When he had slowed to twenty and stretched his wings again at last, the boat was a crumb on the sea, four thousand feet below. | |
4 | In all this too there will be the poorest person who also lived on the beach, crewed on one of the boats perhaps, with no land title. | |
5 | The ship flooded from the bottom up, and when the rising water shorted out the electrical system, the massive boat shifted into reverse. |