Legends and Lore
During the 19th century a keeper died while on the island leaving his wife alone to tend to the station. She did so until she went insane and was found by a rescue ship wandering the island.
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Famous quotes containing the words legends and/or lore:
“a child’s
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sunlight
And the legends of the green chapels
And the twice-told fields of infancy”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)