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The Intimacy of Shared Mortality
Connie Porter
Dying together's even more personal than living together.
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Survival Dynamics in an Isolated Lifeboat
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What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat?
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Questioning Connie's Origin in Lifeboat
Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse
Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?
[seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat]
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Nature and Identity in Conflict
Gus Smith
A guy can't help being a German if he's born a German, can he?
[referring to Willie]
John Kovac
Neither can a snake help being a rattlesnake if he's born a rattlesnake! That don't make him a nightingale! Get him out of here!
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Human Vulnerability vs. Iron Strength
Connie Porter
We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!
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Leadership Decision in Lifeboat Situation
John Kovac
As of now I'm skipper, and anybody who don't like it can get out and swim to Bermuda. What about that?
Gus Smith
I'll buy it.
Stanley Sparks Garrett
Suits me. What about you, Miss?
Alice MacKenzie
I'm for it.
George Joe Spencer
Yes, sir!
Charles D. Ritt Rittenhouse
Well, if the rest agree.
Connie Porter
All right, Commissar, what's the course?
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Reflections on Past Trauma and Survival
Connie Porter
Reminds me of an air raid once that hit me in Chunking.
[speaking of the disaster]
John Kovac
Reminds me of a slaughterhouse I once worked in in Chicago. Those ] buzzards — a tin fish ain't enough. They've got to shell us too!
[[Nazi]
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Scientific Perspective on Ice and Carbon
Willy
Looks like bits of ice.
[fixing her diamond bracelet]
Connie Porter
I wish they were.
Willy
They're really nothing but a few pieces of carbon crystallized under high pressure at great heat.
Connie Porter
Quite so, if you want to be scientific about it.
Willy
I'm a great believer in science.
Connie Porter
Like tears, for instance. They're nothing but H2O with a trace of sodium chloride.
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A Call to Reunite with Rosie
Willy
There's Rosie! She's waiting for you!
[to the delirious Gus; Willy pushes Gus overboard]
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Survival Instincts: Gender in Crisis
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Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat?
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Identity and Shame in Lifeboat
Gus Smith
My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!
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Survival Amongst Strangers at Sea
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Six men and three women — against the sea and each other.
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