Built in eighteen fifty to benefit sick, infirm, or elderly sailors who had nowhere else to go, it housed several wards of men from countries all over the world. Nurse Eckhart was right. It was a sad place. Ethan could almost feel the despair hanging over the long rows of beds. “It must be intolerable,” she said in a soft voice as they walked through the wards. “Men who have spent most of their lives surrounded by a limitless horizon, now condemned to these four walls with barely a window to look out of.” Ethan had noticed that. The gloom was almost palpable. And whenever they could, men had left their beds to stand at the windows, staring blankly at the shimmering sea stretching below them. “Do you think more windows would help?” he asked. “Immeasurably. And more beds. And more storage. And a gathering place with a view of the ocean. Can you do all that?”
What do You think about Behind His Blue Eyes (2013)?
