”[T]hree years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man -- or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of -- and the six ho

”[T]hree years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man -- or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of -- and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.” A Descent Into The Maelstrom, Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 https://poestories.com/read/descent https://poestories.com/read/descent