The devil and the deep blue sea
The cruise ships of the world have become both a metaphor for the coronavirus lockdown, and a morality tale about uncaring consumption
09 April 2020 - 05:00
Most readers will be familiar with the tale of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship that can never make port, and is doomed to sail the seas forever.
While the tale originates from the 17th-century heyday of the Dutch East India Company, the famous VOC that gave SA the twin blessings of Jan van Riebeeck and a wine industry, there have been many versions over the years. My favourite is in a book called Scenes of Infancy, written by John Leyden and published in 1803:..
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