If the waters overwhelm you, let them overwhelm flesh, breath, and all else, but they will never make a shipwreck of the mind". He once said that a defining moment in his intellectual life came with a phrase in a Robert Lowell poem, "One life, one writing". I had asked him about it at his home, before lunch, and there was a long silence and much fidgeting with the stub of a cigar.
Elizabeth asked Paulet, Mary's final custodian, if he would contrive a clandestine way to "shorten the life" of Mary, which he refused to do on the grounds that he would not make "a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot on my poor posterity".
Searches made for shipwrecks that occurred during the past 150 years.
With its exuberant "salty sea dog" look, featuring TVs set into brass "portholes", doors faced with 3D sea monster scenes, and a stunning staircase installation made of "shipwrecked" wood, the Stora Hotel promises to be unlike any other in the town (or anywhere else, come to that).
But you can still create a painting about a shipwreck, and make it sufficiently abstract so that people who do not enjoy shipwrecks can still find something in the painting to relate to perhaps the energy, the drama, the movement, the tragedy, the scale of nature vs humanity etc and enjoy the painting.
It is possible, though unlikely, that the shipwreck will make Russia's elite behave more responsibly, perhaps even by backing, one day, a genuinely reforming government.
Walsingham wrote to Paulet urging him to find "some way to shorten the life" of Mary to relieve Elizabeth of the burden, to which Paulet replied indignantly, "God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without law or warrant".
I know how much we owe to you for your help during the Falklands campaign, the information you gave us, communications, and also the refuge you gave to any of our armed forces who were able, if they were shipwrecked, to make their way to Chile". "I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect.
Its mysterious demise inspired Gordon Lightfoot's hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), which helped make it the most famous shipwreck in the Great Lakes.
