The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport (Classic Reprint)

There seems to be no information concerning the author of these letters save that contained in the letters themselves. They reached the Revue de Paris through the friend to whom they were addressed. Their serial publication was interrupted by the censor, but resumed again after several months. It is evident that the idea of publication never once entered the authors head. He was not literary. But he had a great relish for life, a fresh, huge appetite for the daily doings of the winch, the horizontal shaft, and the weather; and a positive passion for human nature for his crew, his Hindus, for what the big vegetable said and what the little lady did, for what Plantat, Flannigan, and Mousseaux thought, for Villiers, with his unanswerable arguments and his multicolored lingerie, and above all, for the pasha Fourgues. Y. was impelled to write of all these things, partly for the pleasure of living every detail over again and partly in order to sense fully his captain, who was so important to him, whom he enjoyed so much and whom he saw so clearly. For Y., in the process of becoming a man, felt Fourgues to be a real one and was reaching for Fourgues
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