In
his essay “Ascension in the Moonlight”, Simon Winchester proves large amounts
of money aren't needed to have a great wealth of experience. On his way from Antarctica
to his home country, England, Winchester, by chance, ends up on an old British
Navy base of the coast of England called Accession Island. To describe his
experience, he uses metaphors to describe “the soft and sugary sand [that] took
on an appearance just like snow” and the turtles that came to the beach “like
wounded soldiers of an invasion force”. When he experiences a lunar eclipse, he
uses imagery to express “only the glow of the distant runway lights […] and the stars broke the velvet blackness of the night”.
Even though he didn’t spend much money, his experience “was perhaps the greatest
wealth of any experience that any one individual could ever know in one
moment”.
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