Passengers boarding an ocean liner, 1925.
“It was for convalescent reasons that I lately undertook a resolutely up-market Mediterranean cruise, with a Greek classical bias, and since I thought of such a cruise generically as being a kind of packaged aging process, at first I decided for literary purposes to rename our ship the Geriatrica. Later I changed my mind.It was perfectly true, though, as I had foreseen, that we formed a venerable passenger list, and sunset intimations were soon apparent. ... Of course the passage of time had to be a preoccupation on board such a ship as ours. ...”
2020 November: Venice (1960)
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