The New Yorker – Unsinkable: Why we can’t let go of the Titanic
by Daniel Mendelsohn | APRIL 16, 2012
“…If the Titanic has gripped our imagination so forcefully for the past century, it must be because of something bigger than any fact of social or political or cultural history. To get to the bottom of why we can’t forget it, you have to turn away from the facts and consider the realm to which the Titanic and its story properly belong: myth….”
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