AtD, 515 (3-5)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"There are many, perhaps most of us, for whom an ocean voyage, particularly 
on the first class ticket, figures high on the list of human delights."

Is this perhaps a reference to D.F. Wallace's essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing 
I'll Never Do Again", which was first published in Harper's Magazine under 
the title "Shipping Out"? I thought so because the formulation "most of us" 
implies the community of author and readers and thus the present.

(Really don't wanna evoke anti-terrorist hysteria, but it's kinda 
astonishing that up to now there hasn't been a terrorist incident with a 
major cruiser. I mean, a ship must be so much easier to hijack than an 
airplane, no? The greater danger for the ordinary tourist, however, still 
comes from salmonellen poisoning because of rotten water or food.)

Wallace's entertaining essay was first published in German at the 
marebuchverlag (Hamburg 2002):
"Schrecklich amüsant --- aber in Zukunft ohne mich".

Kai