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page 66  At least give these works a try with the stark strophe of our Opel, quoted early in this chapter. First of all, let's recap the main authors we have looked at:
 * •  Mark Bigney
 * •  Opal Whiteley


 * •  Homer
 * •  William Shakespeare


 * •  Katharine Susannah Prichard
 * •  Vicente Blasco Ibanez
 * •  Lafcadio Hearn

Of course it's almost a given to find stark drowned corpses in the works by Bigney and Hearn, as such corpses were inevitable in the waters around the devastated Last Island.   Down in the deep what monster forms drew nigh, With eyes of fire; and skeletons swam by, Like mocking deaths, which seemed, with bony hand, To point new terrors in some viewless land.
 * — Mark F. Bigney, "Wreck of the Nautilus"

... Almost at the same hour that Laroussel was questioning the child in Creole patois, another expedition, searching for bodies along the coast, discovered on the beach of a low islet famed as a haunt of pelicans, the corpse of a child. Some locks of bright hair still adhering to the skull, a string of red beads, a white muslin dress, a handkerchief broidered with the initials “A. L. B.,” – were secured as clews; and the little body was interred where it had been found. And, several days before, Captain Hotard, of the relief-boat Estelle Brousseaux, had found, drifting in the open Gulf (latitude 26° 43’; longitude 88° 17’), – the corpse of a fair-haired woman, clinging to a table. The body was disfigured beyond recognition: even the slender bones of the hands had been stripped by the nibs of the sea-birds – except one finger, the third of the left, which seemed to have been protected by a ring of gold, as by a charm. — Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Memory of Last Island  sources → Bigney, Mark Frederick. "Wreck of the Nautilus." The Forest Pilgrims, and Other Poems. New Orleans: J. A. Gresham, 1867. 86-87. Print. http://www.archive.org/stream/forestpilgrims00bignrich#page/n87/mode/2up Hearn, Lafcadio. Chita: A Memory of Last Island. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. 109-110. Print. http://www.archive.org/stream/chitamemoryoflas00hearuoft#page/108/mode/2up