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"SAIL AWAYby SIMON SCHAMASix days to New York on the Queen Mary 2"
"Overlooked?literally?by the seventeen-deck Queen Mary 2, as she slid into her berth at Pier 92 on April 22nd, was the dead white bird. Laid out on its funeral barge beside the U.S.S. Intrepid, as flightless and obsolete as the dodo, Concorde wasn?t going anywhere. The sleek dream of supersonic speed, the princess of whoosh, which got you there before you?d started, was now, officially, a museum piece. The future?as the mayoral bloviations greeting the ship?s midtown docking affirmed?belonged to a hundred and fifty thousand tons of steel capable of grinding through the ocean at all of thirty knots (that?s around thirty-five m.p.h. to you landlubbers). The latest and most massive of the transatlantic liners takes twenty times as long to carry you from New York to England as a Boeing or an Airbus. And that?s the good news?the reason, in fact, for Commodore Ronald Warwick, the master of the Queen Mary 2, to brag, at the quayside ceremonies, that Cunard was poised to compete with the airlines for a serious share of the transatlantic business.
Like those of us who had sailed with him through Force 10 gales and thirty-foot swells, the Commodore may have been pardonably giddy at coming through the worst that the feisty ocean could throw his way on a maiden North Atlantic voyage and still getting to the Statue of Liberty on schedule. But could this be the start of something really big and really slow? We take for granted the appeal of velocity, that there is money to be made and pleasure to be had from the gratification of the instantaneous: the three-gulp Happy Meal, the lightning download, the vital cell-phone message that I am here and are you there? And where has this culture of haste got us?........."Read more.
Pam
quote:Originally posted by Green:Pam - I've got goose bumps reading this far - now for the rest!
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