Author: Ted Kaczynski

2,101 words

Übersetzt von Deep Roots

English original here

Es war einmal, da wurden der Kapitän und die Maate eines Schiffes so eingebildet auf ihre Seemannschaft, so voller Anmaßung und von sich selbst beeindruckt, daß sie verrückt wurden. (more…)

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German translation here

Once upon a time, the captain and the mates of a ship grew so vain of their seamanship, so full of hubris and so impressed with themselves, that they went mad. They turned the ship north and sailed until they met with icebergs and dangerous floes, and they kept sailing north into more and more perilous waters, solely in order to give themselves opportunities to perform ever-more-brilliant feats of seamanship.

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