Down With The Old Canoe

I found this fascinating and amusing article in this week's New Yorker magazine, Unsinkable:  Why we can't let go of the Titanic, by Daniel Mendelsohn, a look at the cultural history of the Titanic in literature and film.

The fake newspaper headline from The Onion's book, "Our Dumb Century", says it all, World's Largest Metaphor Hits Iceberg.