There are loads of other books worth reading too-Chris Eakin's 'A Race Too Far', Peter Nichol's 'A Voyage For Madmen'. Sadly there are no full transcripts of Crowhurst's logs online, in fact I've only been able to find extracts anywhere-would love to read them in full.
@martininllyswen first stop for anyone curious about Crowhurst should be 'The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst' by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomalin. Fascinating book, loads of log transcripts and an amazing insight into the man.
Nice piece..."The rigging sighs a sigh of cosmic sorrow, for weeping doves who die, maybe, tomorrow..."
Crowhurst was a genius. A mad one, arguably, and a doomed one, most definitely, but a genius nonetheless. Eg, it has taken CERN another 42yrs to concur with Crowhurst (on an identical basis) that Einstein's Theory Of Relativity is nonsense...
@fleabags1971 ... I heard the phrase 'Cosmic Sorrow' on the film documentary 'Deep Water' which was quoted from his diaries... I'm not sure if his diaries were published though
Music and pictures go well together. Starts like breathing being as Earth is central. Switch to planets and music increasingly mechanical, reflecting solar system, post Kepler. Theme continues into a spiral galaxy but becomes more contemplative with galaxies farther afield perhaps indicating their unattainability for humans except in abstract thought . Return to the moon and the re-emergence of the human voice.
There are loads of other books worth reading too-Chris Eakin's 'A Race Too Far', Peter Nichol's 'A Voyage For Madmen'. Sadly there are no full transcripts of Crowhurst's logs online, in fact I've only been able to find extracts anywhere-would love to read them in full.
JinderTV 4 months ago
@martininllyswen first stop for anyone curious about Crowhurst should be 'The Strange Last Voyage Of Donald Crowhurst' by Ron Hall and Nicholas Tomalin. Fascinating book, loads of log transcripts and an amazing insight into the man.
JinderTV 4 months ago
Nice piece..."The rigging sighs a sigh of cosmic sorrow, for weeping doves who die, maybe, tomorrow..."
Crowhurst was a genius. A mad one, arguably, and a doomed one, most definitely, but a genius nonetheless. Eg, it has taken CERN another 42yrs to concur with Crowhurst (on an identical basis) that Einstein's Theory Of Relativity is nonsense...
JinderTV 4 months ago
@JinderTV Ahhh... where did you get the quote from as I only heard it on the documentary? Is it on the web somewhere?
martininllyswen 4 months ago
hey can you buy the Donald Crowhurst diaries in print? you said you read the title in one of them.
fleabags1971 1 year ago
@fleabags1971 ... I heard the phrase 'Cosmic Sorrow' on the film documentary 'Deep Water' which was quoted from his diaries... I'm not sure if his diaries were published though
martininllyswen 1 year ago
a nice and soothing DNBbeat in this tune would be awesome!
Dolemga 1 year ago
Music and pictures go well together. Starts like breathing being as Earth is central. Switch to planets and music increasingly mechanical, reflecting solar system, post Kepler. Theme continues into a spiral galaxy but becomes more contemplative with galaxies farther afield perhaps indicating their unattainability for humans except in abstract thought . Return to the moon and the re-emergence of the human voice.
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