Goodness.... It's heartbreaking (really not the word I'm looking for) to look at a historical figure's life and see the thing it all revolved around... For Belgrave Ninnis it was Antarctica. For Lincoln Ellsworth it was his father. For Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the Terra Nova expedition. And like idk these aren't good but it's the theme. It's the major motif. And it drags them all down eventually. A stuck anchor in a gale...

















