Anatoliy Petoyan – Ghosts of the Abyss: Titanic
This book is a tribute to the eminent journalist and spiritualist William Thomas Stead, who died on board the Titanic in 1912. "
1. "My Dear Beatrice. I seem as faceless as this ocean, as fragmented as this rusty hulk buried at the bottom of the sea, a long-forgotten shipwreck without markings. My bones are signals rising to the surface, reflecting from the abyss. Alas, over the years they have become covered in rust, and the signals have become intermittent, with a noticeable frequency. Perhaps these are signs of my permeated indifference to Caitlin? Has her soul rotted over time, like mine? Perhaps the answer is known to these damned wrecks in which I am imprisoned. The shadow of my consciousness tirelessly beats out the remnants of a long-rotted manipulator, still sending these signals to all those who did not hear the call for help on that fateful night. My naked nervous system is an antenna, transmitting signals across the darkness of the perilous abyss. I will direct its summit for you; I will leave fragments of radio waves at the foot of my tombstone. You will need them in the ruins of chaos, so that when the time comes, you can find me."