This comes after the brothers find a dead man's boat. Outside of the book of mud, in my thinkings in my own mind, i've been thinking some about boats, arks, with no people on it—ghost ships, first spurned i think by reading an article about how they found an unmanned ship that was swept out to see when that giant wave hit that island after shaking the ground of that island far out east & from there i started reading about other ghost ships in the history of time. And at the same we were on this island, on another island north of here in this same sea, sister, the sister who wrote the book of a sister that stops breathing, this sister was herself on an another island where a ship, a ship not unlike the ship we are on except this ship was only used for cruising for the sake of cruising & not ferrying, this ship ran aground on this island. This ship ran into the rocks off this island where sister was & remains there along with the remains of some people cruising for the sake of cruising on this ship, so in a sense it is a different kind of ghost ship, not a floating ship without people or a captain, but a sunk ship with dead people still in it, more like brother's dead man's boat, except the boats in brother's books are used for fishing, not for luxury or commercial cruising. Unlike sister, i've never seen this dead ship with my own eyes, but reading about it back when it sunk stirred enough anxiety in me to perhaps contribute to my recent vertigo.