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Published · transcript-backedEmily St. John Mandel: observation
8 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
“There are cargo ships that will accept passengers on a very small scale, and there’s nothing luxurious about it. The point is that it’s not a luxury cruise, that you are on a cargo ship.”
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- Emily St. John Mandel
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- 8 Apr 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…— and then walk off in some semi-disguise. How would you fake your own death? That’s actually a pretty good method as long as you have enough money to pay off a couple of crew members. There are cargo ships that will accept passengers on a very small scale, and there’s nothing luxurious about it. The point is that it’s not a luxury cruise, that you are on a cargo ship. But you eat dinner with the officers. You hang out on the ship and read all day. Yeah, your method is good. Pay off a couple of crew members and you’re good. People in that industry are not particularly well paid, so you wouldn’t even have to be terribly wealthy to pull that off. They could take your money and then not report you dead. Or they could take your money, intend to report you dead, but tell the other people, and then you would be discovered. So I’m not sure what the chance of success actually is.…
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