Sublime

Weltschmerz

In 1918, a ship named the Talune docked in the port of Apia, in Western Samoa. The New Zealand officers and crew knew that some of their passengers were ill, with symptoms that resembled the deadly disease known variously as influenza, Spanish influenza, and the flu. Yet they told the harbormaster there were "only sniffles, but nothing serious

rhapsodizing

ameliorated.

“What a world,”

propitious