A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead.
'Ow They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them ' grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course.
Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which crushes three dozen such waves under her uncaring steel plates.
How many hundreds of men does she carry? Up there, people laugh, play, dream, eat and sleep .
while we, a few feet above th.
Black Inc. Short Blacks Short black 8: prosper, paperback/simon leys
