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Bethany T
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I have quoted this review at length, because it gives the atmosphere of hero-worship into which we were plunged on our return. That atmosphere was very agreeable; but it was a refracting medium through which the expedition could not be seen with scientific accuracy—and the expedition was nothing if not scientific.
— Jun 19, 2026 07:14AM
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Bethany T
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These requirements are calculated for total absorption of all food-stuffs: but in practice, by visual proof, this does not take place: this is especially noticeable in the case of fats, a quantity of which were digested neither by men, ponies, nor dogs.
So fascinating to see where they were scientifically at this time. Wow.
— Jul 23, 2026 02:31PM
So fascinating to see where they were scientifically at this time. Wow.
Bethany T
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It is no use repeating that Englishmen will respond to every call and stick it to the death: they will (some of them); but they have to pay the price all the same.
— Jul 23, 2026 09:28AM
Bethany T
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And then the begging that is necessary to obtain even this equipment. Shackleton hanging round the doors of rich men! Scott writing begging letters for months together! Is the country not ashamed?
— Jul 23, 2026 09:25AM
Bethany T
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He was a brave soul. [...] He said, 'I am just going outside and may be some time.' He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since.
— Jul 22, 2026 04:42PM
Bethany T
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Scott wrote home: "A last note from a hopeful position. I think it's going to be all right. We have a fine party going forward and arrangements are all going well." Ten months afterwards we found their bodies.
— Jul 20, 2026 04:36PM
Bethany T
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With the pad, pad, pad, of fin'skoed feet, / With two hundred pounds per man, / Not enough hoosh or biscuit to eat, / Well done, lads! Up tent! Outspan.
— Jul 17, 2026 01:41PM
Bethany T
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"I am waiting for a receipt for some penguins' eggs." At last it becomes clear from the Explorer's expression that what he is really waiting for is not to take a receipt but to commit murder. Presumably this is reported to the destined victim: at all events the receipt finally comes.
— Jul 17, 2026 04:57AM
Bethany T
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Thus impiously I set out to die, making up my mind that I was not going to try and keep warm, that it might not take too long, and thinking I would try and get some morphia from the medical case if it got very bad. Not a bit heroic, and entirely true! Yes! comfortable, warm reader. Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.
— Jul 01, 2026 11:38PM
Bethany T
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It is extraordinary how often angels and fools do the same thing in this life, and I have never been able to settle which we were on this journey.
— Jul 01, 2026 02:09PM