Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...log that Greg keeps makes up this awkward, yet stubbornly obsessing book. At first, the entries are all G.I.-the duty jargon of a young eager beaver who has few doubts that superior officers will see his log and praise him for Going by the Book even on a desert island. Then solitude begins to work its mischief by mixing up time and perspective-bleaching the freshest memories, reviving older ones to an almost unbearable intensity...
When Crowhurst's logbooks were examined, the story became stranger still. Though his radio messages had him circling the globe, Crowhurst's daily log entries revealed that he had never left the Atlantic. The logs, moreover, contained almost unintelligible passages-25,000 words in all-and documented an eerie religious revelation experienced by Crowhurst in the closing weeks of his voyage. There was also what appeared to be a three-page suicide note...
...Teignmouth, he realized that his leaky boat would never weather the full voyage around Cape Horn, he had too much of himself and his fortune invested in the project to return, and was gradually forced into fraud. He sailed slowly through the deserted South Atlantic, doctoring his log and dispatching radio messages of his progress round the world...
Gradual Fraud. But the fraud, like the voyage itself, proved too much for Crowhurst to sustain. As he turned homeward, Tomalin and Hall believe, Crowhurst decided his faked log could not stand up to a full investigation. Unable to face exposure, he was driven to insanity and at length to suicide...
...first glance, the 4-ft.-long, buff-colored fossilized log that Behunin discovered seemed not at all remarkable. It lay in a countryside of desert valleys in central Utah that 150 million years ago was a lush tropical shore along an inland sea, inhabited by huge flesh-eating dinosaurs. The area has thus yielded a rich supply of plant and animal fossils. Examining a specimen of the fossil under a microscope, Paleobotanist William D. Tidwell of Brigham Young University recognized the unmistakable cellular structure of the palm...