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Updated: June 29, 2025
A cry went up from the spectators below who feared a dire catastrophe was about to end a voyage which promised success. But with incomparable sang-froid the young Brazilian manipulated the weights, restored the ship to the horizontal again without stopping the engines, and reached the finishing stake in time to win the prize. In a sense the reference to the heavens is a trifle over-rhetorical.
"This night reminds me of those lines in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the ones that follow after 'Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilion? which are, to me, a trifle over-rhetorical ... the ensuing lines are more lovely: "'Fair as the evening air "'Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars, or is it 'ten thousand stars'?"
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