Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.
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p 1, describing his North Pole swim (2007)Lewis Gordon Pugh
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A thought came across my mind: if things go pear-shaped on this swim, how long will it take for my frozen body to sink the four and a half kilometers to the bottom of the ocean?
Lewis Gordon Pugh
I sat there as if I were paralyzed; for a second totally immobilized, a suddenly frozen mind and body that had solidified into one great silent scream at the mention of a name I had long ago consigned to a grave somewhere. Then the terrible cold was drenched with an even more terrible wash of heat and I sat there with my hands bunched into fists to keep them from shaking.
Mickey Spillane
I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pugh, Lewis Gordon
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