It wasn’t hard for people to see the Titanic as a metaphor … - Steve Turner

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It wasn’t hard for people to see the Titanic as a metaphor for Western civilization’s obsessions with speed, wealth, and conquest at the expense of contemplation, sharing and the well-being of one’s neighbor.

Steve Turner

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Steve Turner is a music journalist, biographer and poet, who grew up in Northamptonshire, England.

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I shall never forget the sight of that beautiful boat as she went down, the orchestra playing to the last, the lights burning until they were extinguished by the waves. It sounds so unreal, like a scene on the stage.

In the last moments of the great ship’s doom, when all was plainly lost, when braver and hardier men might almost have been excused for doing practically anything to save themselves, they stood responsive to their conductor’s baton and played a recessional tune.

They kept it up until the very end. Only the engulfing ocean had power to drown them into silence.

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