Worden, stationed in the pilothouse, had been wounded in the face, however, and nearly blinded by a shell.
After additional action and reloading, the Monitor's pilothouse was hit, driving iron splinters into Worden's eyes.
Though Europe saw itself as the pilothouse of fate, in truth it was more like a fort, which had been shaped by the constant assault of those horsemen.
From that vantage point, Shiloh's home, way in the distance, looked like the pilothouse of a swamped ship.
The very improbability of such an act's happening at such a time — to an assimilated Jew who had mastered a meritocratic system and a city that was the pride and pilothouse of civic rationalism — made it a portent, the moment where Maupassant's world of ambition and pleasure met Kafka's world of inexplicable bureaucratic suffering.
When it was pitch-black and there was no moon, the banks would blend in with the water and looking through the glass windows in the pilothouse, it was exceedingly difficult to find a horizon and tell where one was in the river.
In the pilothouse, standing behind Jorge Cano and John Dugger as they swing the ship to port and head south, I find myself remembering an exchange between Cano and Rabalais a couple of days ago, when Cano was speculating about the Atchafalaya's chances of capturing the Mississippi someday despite all efforts to prevent it from doing so.
"Deltas wax and wane," remarks Fred Chatry, in the pilothouse of the Mississippi.
There is some running around, some eye-bugging, some breaths drawn shallower even than the sandbar — but not here in the pilothouse.
