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The sailor who saw the future
Fourteen years before the Titanic, another unsinkable liner sailed through the pages of a novel. Its name was Titan: the largest ever built, a pride of engineering and a symbol of human presumption. On its maiden voyage, on a freezing April night, it shattered against an iceberg in the North Atlantic. The tragedy was identical, with too few lifeboats for thousands of doomed passengers. It was not news, but literary fiction. An unsettling premonition written by Morgan Robertson, a foreboding that turned a tale into the sinister echo of a disaster yet to come, casting a prophetic shadow over the icy waters of history.
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