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"He understood that this contravened the Admiralty's advisory..." (231)
Contravened is a verb, and it's defined as "to violate the prohibition or order of"
My brother's visit to his friends down the street this afternoon contravened my parent's request that he finish his homework before we went to the mall.

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"Captain Turner's concern about open portholes was shared by all captains, whether in peace of war. A porthole was just what its name indicated: a hole in the side of a ship. Under certain conditions, a single open porthole could admit water at a rate of 3.75 tons a minute" (208).

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"Captain Turner's concern about open portholes was shared by all captains, whether in peace of war. A porthole was just what its name indicated: a hole in the side of a ship. Under certain conditions, a single open porthole could admit water at a rate of 3.75 tons a minute" (208).

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I made note of this quote when I initially read it because of the sheer weight of the statistic, and also the clear foreshadowing. It's clear after reading this that when the ship goes down, there will be many portholes left open, and therefore the ship will sink faster. This is a typical stylistic choice by Larson, as it's very common in his books to get information on what is happening in the moment and why it's not good, and then have it followed by a powerful statistic with a foreshadowing tone, leading the reader to guess about what will happen in the coming chapters.

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"...minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now [lay] dead on the bare deck, blackened burnt skeletons... the fire having devoured all... Aboard the Lusitania, there was quiet. There were books, and cigars, and fine foods, afternoon tea, and the easy cadence of shipboard life" (182).

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"...minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now [lay] dead on the bare deck, blackened burnt skeletons... the fire having devoured all... Aboard the Lusitania, there was quiet. There were books, and cigars, and fine foods, afternoon tea, and the easy cadence of shipboard life" (182).

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I thought this quote was very important because it draws a preliminary contrast between the war going on in the outside world, and the peaceful bubble the Lusitania passengers are existing in. While men are dying in scores for their freedoms all around the world, the people crossing on the great ocean liner are completely oblivious. Larson's word choice changes the tone abruptly, and one is immediately torn from the horrible mental image of the burnt skeletons that had been living, breathing men hours earlier and given the peaceful image of life aboard the Lusitania. It also has a mild sense of foreshadowing, as one can only imagine what this "quiet" will later become.

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"Theodate began serious study of the powers of the mind and the occult in her thirties" (201).
Occult is a noun here, meaning "knowledge of the paranormal".
My friend Brianna was the president of the Paranormal Club at her college, a group notorious for having an extreme interest in the occult.

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Pages 181-240

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"I am always happy when I keep so busy that I cannot stop to think of the sadness of life" (158).

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"I am always happy when I keep so busy that I cannot stop to think of the sadness of life" (158).

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I adore this quote. I'm not sure I've ever laid eyes on a string of words I've identified with more. The section on Theodate Pope and her time serving the "Rest Cure" for depression, which was a period of forced inactivity for women with depression in this time period. Of course, this cure did not work for Theodate, and from a modern perspective, it seems preposterous. She wrote this in a journal in response to her time spent in the clinic. I love it so much because it's an idea I've always had, finally put into words. It seems that existential crisis and crippling despair only arrives preceded by times of leisure and little stress. This is yet another reason why I love Larson as an author so much. He not only gives a detailed account of the event the book focuses on, but includes backstories, anecdotes, and thought provoking writings from the real people involved.

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"one young woman found herself seated beside 'a very dyspeptic sort of fellow'" (156).
This is an adjective, meaning "of or having indigestion, or consequent irritability or depression."
It's hard to become friends with a dyspeptic person, as they are often irritated and uncomfortable and don't want to socialize.

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"The idea of subjecting passengers, many of them prominent souls in first class, to the hard and irregular turns of a zigzag course was beyond contemplation" (147).

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"The idea of subjecting passengers, many of them prominent souls in first class, to the hard and irregular turns of a zigzag course was beyond contemplation" (147).

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There are a few reasons I like this quote so much. First, it really stood out to me as an indicator of the thought process of this time period. The owners of this great ship would rather preserve their image as a luxury cruise line than take the precautions necessary to avoid submarines. In reality, however uptight the first class passengers were, I can't imagine they would have really put up a fuss about a safer course. Next, the paragraph before this quote details the way a captain should zigzag a course, and Larson makes it clear that this is a mockable practice. The fact that a captain would prefer to avoid ridicule by maintaining a straight course instead of a zigzag one while running the risk of attack by submarine goes along with my previous point, showing the extreme risks people would take to maintain their image. Lastly, I love the way Larson presents this complex idea so eloquently and memorably.

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"One great fear of all U-boat men was that a half-sunk derelict or an uncharted rock might lie in their path" (139)
This word is generally an adjective, but here it is used as a noun. It means, "a person without a home, job, or property."
A drive through Boston at night reveals to any observant person the many derelicts of the city, men and women who call those streets home.

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Pages 121-180

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"Cromptom headed the group's leather-

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"...who had written an account of Dickens's piracy litigation" (68).
This is a noun, defined as "the process of taking legal action".
In order to avoid litigation, many companies choose to pay off those who take offense with their policies or are injured on the job.

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"All these discomforts were borne, moreover, against a back-drop of always present danger, with everyone aware they faced the worst kind of death imaginable: slow suffocation in a darkened steel tube at the bottom of the sea" (64). 

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"All these discomforts were borne, moreover, against a back-drop of always present danger, with everyone aware they faced the worst kind of death imaginable: slow suffocation in a darkened steel tube at the bottom of the sea" (64). 

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This line really stuck out to me because first, being trapped in an object underwater and not being able to escape is one of my greatest fears, and second because it really highlights the bravery of these men. They did not fear for their lives every waking moment, they just went about their business serving their country, despite the extreme danger they were always in.

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Pages 61-120

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"Another man packed a gold seal for stamping wax on the back of an envelope, with the Latin motto Tuta Tenebo, "I will keep you safe" (44)

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"Another man packed a gold seal for stamping wax on the back of an envelope, with the Latin motto Tuta Tenebo, "I will keep you safe" (44)

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This is an important quote because it foreshadows what is going to happen later in the book, when the Lusitania sinks. It also shows irony that someone brought this stamp with them on a dangerous voyage, presumably to keep them safe, and may have ended up losing their life regardless.

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"A heliotrope- and-white-checked frock" (44).
This is another noun, defined as a plant with purple or blue flowers, but used here as an adjective, defined as "pink-purple tinted in color"
Instead of her usual black or grey, she opted for a heliotrope colored dress for prom.

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"Anyone looking up from the dock saw only beauty, on a monumental scale, while on the far side of the ship men turned black with dust as they shoveled coal" (10).

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"Anyone looking up from the dock saw only beauty, on a monumental scale, while on the far side of the ship men turned black with dust as they shoveled coal" (10).

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I think this is such a fantastic quote to start off with because it touches upon Larson's point about the Lusitania being immense, yet graceful and beautiful, but also shows the work and less glamorous side of nautical life. It almost reminds me of our class discussion on perception versus reality, and how something may seem effortlessly beautiful, but there's always more to the story.

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"...less the product of human endeavor than an escarpment rising from a plain" (7).
This is a noun, defined as a "long steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau"
Skiing would probably be less appealing of an idea if, instead of taking a lift back to the top, one had to trudge up the escarpment they had just flown down so effortlessly moments before.

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Pages 1-60

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So I did go away for a weekend and was about 175 pages into the book before we got this assignment, so I think I'm going to continue reading whenever I have time until I have to make time because of a due date. Since it's such an enjoyable read and I'm on page 233 out of 350 or so, I'll just pull two quotes from 60 pages for each due date until 10/28.

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I picked this book because I LOVED the Devil in the White City. In the past, I have been extremely entertained by historical novels, starting after I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. So, when I heard we needed to read a nonfiction book, I knew I wanted a historical read. I was in the airport and recognized the black and white cover on this book after our class discussion of tDitWC and instantly bought it when I saw it was written by Larson.