Inspiration
The plot of the book comes largely from the 1912 novel by Gaston Leroux, The Bride of the Sun.
Pachacamac, the name of both the cargo ship and the Inca Sun god, is an ancient Peruvian temple in the vicinity where the story is set.
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“Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead, the civil code, and the day’s work. But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.”
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“Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So much fate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.”
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