I May Be Some Time

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Brenda Clough's 2001 science fiction novella " May Be Some Time" has Oates transported to the year 2045, where he is healed via advanced medicine. This novella formed the basis for her later novel Revise the World, which also centred on Oates. [40] beginning a century and more before Scott sailed in 1901, did to load meaning into the ways of seeing, ways of being brave, and ways of being in company that later became the elements of myth. The early travellers, to take the question from a completely different angle, had, too, almost all anthropomorphised the ice, seeing its bleakness as a kind of geographical misery afflicting the extreme ends of the earth. But Jane Eyre's Robert Falcon Scott (2006). Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition: Captain Scott's Last Expedition. p.454. ISBN 9780199297528. When I taught composition courses one of the guiding principles we were supposed to imprint on our students was the importance of audience. As in, knowing who your audience was so that you could convince them of whatever it was you were trying to convince them of.

often told, the story of Scott's last expedition divides cleanly into three parts. What more natural, when woodcutters always have three sons, when the third key always opens the secret box? The story begins with a perilous journey: Grace Scott clearly did not think this was a surprising thing to write. She evidently saw no contradiction between Scott having 'no urge' towards exploration, and his feeling 'keenly' this very specific appetite for the romance of ice provides an injurious satisfaction. One may perceive a certain rightness in imagining oneself as something so extreme -- in committing the self to an absolute -- but the ice too is a 'great emblem' of a state of mind it cannotHe died an unmarried virgin at the age of 32, according to biographies. But a biography due out at the end of this month cites evidence that 12 years earlier, as a young army officer, he fathered a daughter in a brief liaison with a girl who was less than 12 years old. Paul Simpson-Housley (1992) Antarctica: exploration, perception, and metaphor p. 36. Routledge, 1992. "I am just going outside and may be some time." Scott, Wilson and Bowers continued onwards for a further 20 miles (32km) towards the One Ton food depot that could save them but were halted at latitude 79°40'S by a fierce blizzard on 20March. Trapped in their tent and too weak and cold to continue, they died nine days later, eleven miles (18km) short of their objective. Their frozen bodies were discovered by a search party on 12November; Oates's body was never found. Near where he was presumed to have died, the search party erected a cairn and cross bearing the inscription: "Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L.E.G. Oates, of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard, to try and save his comrades, beset by hardships." [25] Legacy [ edit ] Monument to Oates, close to Holy Trinity Church, Meanwood, Leeds Lawrence Oates blue plaque Meanwood

His 'additional' feelings, then, so strangely developed, so full a little agenda of romantic responses to the prospect of snowy places, represent a sensitivity of another kind. If he possessed them without an active 'urge',coloured, sometimes broken into different combinations of dots and dashes, making an urgent polar morse -- push towards the goal. Pratchett, Terry (1994). "Soul Music (Discworld #16)(3) by Terry Pratchett". Gollancz . Retrieved 24 December 2016.