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"He had been there to help dismantle the Normandie-'the most beautiful ship ever built'-as it lay charred & half drowned in the Hudson River in America. 'But somehow even that was beautiful...because in a breaker's yard you discover anything can have a new life, be reborn as part of a car or railway carriage, or a shovel blade. You take that older life & you link it to a stranger.'" -Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table