Beyond the Sea : From the Booker-winning Author of Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Author:Paul Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The known shape of the world, their voices, the boat. All unbecome in the flung dark-sound of the sea. They lie in the cooler clutched together. The wind funnelled into a wail. Down the troughs of sea. Down the blind and bottomless fear that rests in the heart of each man. The panga then heaving upward. Hector refusing to bail. Bolivar furious, climbing out to check the rain barrel. He stands for a moment willing himself at the storm, willing at it with a feeling of his own aliveness. He grips the gunwale as the panga rides an alpine wave. The panga nearing the summit and he lifts his head and looks out from the wave-top. What he sees is a world whirled into being, a world beyond man, a chaotic and empty fury. The wind whips smoke off the wave-top and he bends into his knees as the boat crests the wave then begins its lurch downward.

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In flashing darkness Bolivar continues to bail. He checks again the rain barrel. Crawls to the front of the boat. It is then by lightning flash he sees the net is gone. He casts his hands about. What remains of the net is a wave-torn shred upon the bitt. He begins to roar, bends and bails with furious strokes. Another flash and Bolivar sees Hector’s idol under the stern seat. Something ferocious and occult in its wiry disarray as it returns to darkness, its shape imprinted on the eye. He is overcome by some ill-feeling of a curse. When the effigy comes to be again by lightning strobe Bolivar grabs it and hurls it overboard. He climbs back into the cooler and rests his stinging eyes.

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