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:
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“OUR Latin books in motly row,
Invite us to our task—
Gay Horace, stately Cicero:
Yet there’s one verb, when once we know,
No higher skill we ask:
This ranks all other lore above—
We’ve learned “’Amare’ means ‘to love’!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)