Single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe - 1969
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE
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“There was a small diver’s lifejacket on board, but again
I did not use it. It got in the way for one thing, and if I had
fallen overside, although I would have swum in the direction
of the nearest land, one has to be realistic, and it would
probably have been best to get it over quickly.”
Dazzle Camouflage - 1917
Norman Wilkinson
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"Its purpose was confusion rather than concealment.
An observer would find it difficult to know exactly whether
the stern or the bow is in view; and it would be equally
difficult to estimate whether the observed vessel is moving
towards or away from the observer's position."
The French Connection - 1971
William Friedkin
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"the film’s grimy realism (and downbeat ending) was a big
change from the buff-and-shine gloss and good-guys-
always-win heroics of most police dramas..."
The Old Man and the Sea - 1951
Ernest Hemingway
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"No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols
arrived at beforehand and stuck in... I tried to make a real
old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks.
But if I made them good and true enough they would mean
many things".
