Rms Carpathia Quotes

There's a certain kind of boy who likes to read only about things that have really happened. Like Alex. He read about the Titanic and memorized how many people died (1,523) and the name of the boat that picked up the survivors (RMS Carpathia). He read about ghosts and werewolves, too, sometimes, but only when he was certain he was being presented with facts. (The vulnerability to silver bullets, for example, was made up by modern fiction writers—probably any bullet would do.) In one of the books Alex took out of the library, there was a story about a white flower, the scent of which turned people into wolves. He worried about the flower. It seemed to have no proper name for him to memorize.

On returning to the cabin I put telephones on to verify a time rush which I had exchanged with the Parisian early that afternoon. A 'time rush' is the slang wireless word for the exchange of the ship's time, which is always made when you encounter another ship to see if your clocks agree.