The Receiver of Wreck is an official who administers law dealing with wreck and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage.
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“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“The old man had heard that there was a wreck and knew most of the particulars, but he said that he had not been up there since it happened. It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most ... and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)