Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


Yesterday we had a hint of Plate weather, and to-day an awesome
fiasco of the same. The hint came last evening between the twilight
and the dark. There was practically no wind, and the Elsinore, just
maintaining steerage way by means of intermittent fans of air from
the north, floundered exasperatingly in a huge glassy swell that
rolled up as an echo from some blown-out storm to the south.


Ahead of us, arising with the swiftness of magic, was a dense slate-
blackness. I suppose it was cloud-formation, but it bore no
semblance to clouds. It was merely and sheerly a blackness that
towered higher and higher until it overhung us, while it spread to
right and left, blotting out half the sea.

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