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In Sagoskeppet, Claes-Göran Wetterholm writes about people who were on board the Titanic, people who had to do with the event and the myths that were created around the sinking almost 100 years ago. One of the book’s themes is how people sometimes think more about what they wish had happened than what actually happened.
That the orchestra played Nearer My God to Thee just before the ship sank is a very good story, but it is not true.
And what really happened to all the talk of women and children being saved, while most of the men perished? How does this tally with the statistics showing that almost as many men as women were saved?
Today, the Titanic is not just truth and myth, she has become a symbol of a great deal, of triumph and tragedy, of technology’s vain attempts to defeat nature, of love and sorrow.
The ship itself has become a vehicle for many ideas and thoughts and as such she has become one of the strongest symbols of the modern West, while being one of the few great mythic stories that the last century produced.
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