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Connie Willis
Passage

In loving memory of Erik Felice, the Tinman




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful thanks to my editor Anne Groell, to my agent Ralph Vicinanza, to Doris Myers, and to
Phyllis Giroux and Elizabeth A. Bancroft, M.D., who helped me with the medical details.

Writing this book turned out to be a near-death experience in itself, and I wouldn't have survived
without the support of my daughter Cordelia, my long-suffering friends, the staff of Margie's Java
Joint, and the above-and-beyond-the-call-of-duty help of my husband Courtney and my
Indispensable Girl Friday Laura Norton.



I will remember it forever, the darkness and the cold.

—Edith Haisman, a Titanic survivor



"What is it like down there, Charides?"

"Very dark."

"And what of return?"

"All lies."

—Callimachus




PART 1
"Shut up, shut up, I am working Cape Race."

—Wireless message from the Titanic, cutting off an ice warning the Californian was trying to
send
 1
"More light!"

—Goethe's last words