Скачать или смотреть "The Whirlpool" by Lord Dunsany

The image used is of the Corryvreckan Whirlpool: "This whirlpool effect is caused by the squeezing of the tide though the narrow Gulf of Corryvreckan between Jura and Scarba, over humps and holes in the reef, including a rock pinnacle that rises to 29m from the surface of the sea. This was taken from a small boat that sailed from Easdale." Photo by Water Baxter, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....

Real world whirlpools aren't nearly as dramatic or dangerous as literary ones. Sure, you generally won't want to intentionally run your boat directly bow first into one, but unless you have a particularly small or fragile boat, even if you did you'd survive it. So good for sailors, I guess. Not good for story tellers...


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This story feels like it could be from the Pegana mythos, especially from "Time and the Gods".