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Парашютик одуванчика не знает, куда занесет его ветер: пролетит он многие мили над лугами, проплывет над сосновым лесом, опустится в горное ущелье, застрянет на денёк-другой в паутине и, наконец, пустит росток в самом нелепом месте: старом башмаке, пустой консервной банке или трещине стены, ничего не помня о растеньице, от которого начал свой путь... Вот такой предстает в моей памяти Каролина, прелестнейшее из существ, когда я пытаюсь рассказать ее историю.

A middle-aged Harvard professor, recovering from surgery, takes a voyage to Europe on a ship which, he learns, is also carrying a corpse home to Ireland. The ship is fogbound, surrounded by icebergs. Mr Arcularis begins to dream that he is walking through the stars, and starts sleepwalking. He is constantly cold. On board the ship, he meets people who remind him of other people: a travelling companion who looks like a woman he met at the hospital; a doctor who looks like his father. He encounters a chess-playing clergyman. He keeps hearing the same piece of music over and over again. Conrad Aiken’s dazzlingly literary story is in a tradition of metaphysical sea-stories, from Poe to Melville to Conrad.

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Book DescriptionPoet, short story writer, critic and novelist, Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) has been called the most metaphysical, the most learned, and the most modern of poets. With writing that reflects an intense interest in psychological,