Here’s a video about a doomed book and its creator’s bad luck:
Speaking of the Titanic, my partner and I went to a Titanic exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre. When we entered the exhibit hall, we were each handed a card that contained the name of a Titanic passenger and a bit of information about them–gender, age, and who they were travelling with. What the card didn’t say was whether the passenger survived. My card was about a middle-aged woman travelling with her entire family–her husband and all of her children.
When we reached the end of the exhibit, there was a large display board that listed all the passenger’s names in alphabetical order, and whether they lived or died. My passenger and her entire family perished. It really brought home the magnitude of the tragedy. Here was a family that had probably sold everything it owned to start a new life in North America. Instead, it was snuffed out. Not a single survivor.
I’ll think of that woman and her family on April 15th, the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking.
