better, you know, before I go to sleep tonight, I'd better look at chapter five. So with, for instance, a book like... I did books on the Atlantic and the Pacific. And in the Atlantic, you know, gigantic subject, well, how do you corral all this information into one coherent structure? And what I decided to do was to do it sort of chronologically, but based it on the seven ages of man from Shakespeare, from as you like it. And if you remember from school, you know, it was the infant and then the schoolboy and then the soldier and then the lover and then the judge and the old man and the return to childhood. And it seemed to me that you could look at the ocean from its origins, its childhood. The school child is us getting to know about the ocean. In other words, educating ourselves about the ocean. The soldier would be about all the wars fought across the ocean, you know, everything from Trafalgar to the Vikings to modern warfare. And so it would go on. And similarly with the men who (12/57)
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