Futility is a short novel written by Morgan Robertson in 1898. It was renamed The Wreck of the Titan in 1912.
#titanic #iceberg #catastrophe
"[...] The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings, and fore-and-aft bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship, even where backed by solid, resisting ice; and filling the engine and boiler-rooms with scalding steam, which brought a quick, though tortured death, to each of the hundred men on duty in the engineer's department.
Amid the roar of escaping steam, and the bee-like buzzing of nearly three thousand human voices, raised in agonized screams and callings from within the enclosing walls, and the whistling of air through hundreds of open dead-lights as the water, entering the holes of the crushed and riven starboard side, expelled it, the Titan moved slowly backward and launched herself into the sea, where she floated low on her side — a dying monster, groaning with her death-wound. [...]"
YOUTUBE CHANNELS
COOKING WITH BENOIT : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLcZRa7L2mM83tCL8DOfpA
TRAVEL J'ADORE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lMpbhPO5NjGoivz7y_wpg
WEB
TRAVEL J'ADORE : https://www.traveljadore.com/
PATRONS : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lecteuradom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0n0gM8uiY4
#Lovecraft #ScienceFiction #horrorstories
"What do we know," he had said, "of the world and the universe about us?
Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow.
We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature.
With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos; yet other beings with a wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.
I have always believed that such strange, inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows, and now I believe I have found a way to break down the barriers.
I am not joking.
Within twenty-four hours that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognized sense-organs that exist in us as atrophied or rudimentary vestiges.
Those waves will open up to us many vistas unknown to man, and several unknown to anything we consider organic life.
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
We shall see these things, and other things which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation."
YOUTUBE CHANNELS
COOKING WITH BENOIT : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLcZRa7L2mM83tCL8DOfpA
TRAVEL J'ADORE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lMpbhPO5NjGoivz7y_wpg
WEB
TRAVEL J'ADORE : https://www.traveljadore.com/
Watch the 1986 movie adaptation trailer of Lovecraft's From Beyond :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3D9O9vrDjw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJXNfySlHU