The Devil is in the Details
RV Bowser Lost at Sea
Nature as Actor? I argued that in a paper for the Rutgers/NJIT Graduate joint history program. No environmental historian would challenge that one. I took it a step further when I posited that Nature was the deciding factor in a political outcome.
I am sure that my essay will not bring a whale our way, at least one from the USA.
A screenplay is a screenplay…a research vessel missing is a not necessarily a disaster, but action is action, and the storm that the Bowser got lured into must be damn frightening. I see no need to work out the plot beyond the storm yet.
We need more characters, and characters need backstories. Finding the Bowser any time soon is not necessary. With no whale on the harpoon and the nation being run by delusional madmen…I am going to stay at the Better Duck Inn, thickening the story of the Bowser’ captain, who is going to survive the storm and some before too long.
This project is for respite, primarily. Wrecking a ship is not my idea of a fun time. I am going to postpone buzz killing until I have cash in hand or the cows come home.
I am a land hugger.
There isn’t anything i can think of about a lost ship and its crew that doesn’t dovetail into the philosophy I’ve witnessed of men - and women - who come from seagoing traditions, knowing they don’t know if they’ll ever return to shore as anything other than dispersed particles….