Summer Reading, Robert Gerst: Typhoon (1902)
J.M. Turner, Snow Storm—Steam Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (1842)
The far-off blackness ahead of the ship was like another night seen through the starry night of the earth—the starless night of the immensities beyond the created universe, revealed in its appalling stillness through a low fissure in the glittering sphere of which the earth is the kernel.
Joseph Conrad, Typhoon, Chapter Two
Gordon Bok, Turning Toward the Morning (2012)