Writing
fromThe New Yorker
2 days agoWhat Happens When Someone Throws a Message in a Bottle Into the Sea?
A message in a bottle can connect distant individuals across the world.
Having a real good time, the letter pulled from inside a glass Schweppes bottle said. Food is real good so far, with the exception of one meal, which we buried at sea. Neville, who was killed in action in France in April 1917, aged 28, had departed Adelaide aboard a troopship three days earlier. The dear old (HMAT) Ballarat is heaving and rolling, but we are as happy as Larry, he wrote of the ship, which was later torpedoed and sank in April 1917.