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“Nothing more terrible can happen to a vessel in open sea and under full sail,” wrote Victor Hugo.
“A gun that breaks its moorings becomes suddenly some indescribable supernatural beast,” the writer observed in “Ninety-Three,” his final novel, which is based on the events of 1793 in the French Revolution.
A cannon on the deck of the warship Claymore breaks loose. It “turns upon its wheels, has the rapid movements of a billiard-ball; rolls with the rolling, pitches with the pitching; goes, comes, pauses, seems to meditate; resumes its course, rushes along the ship from end to end like an arrow, circles about, springs aside, evades, rears, breaks, kills, exterminates.”
“The mad mass has the bounds of a panther, the weight of the elephant, the agility of the mouse, the rapidity of lightning, the deafness of the tomb. It weighs ten thousand pounds, and it rebounds like a child’s ball…You can make a mastiff hear reason, astound a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, soften a lion; but th…
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