Splash Study

Hippocrates detailed the ailment, Darwin suffered it sailing to the Galapagos and Lawrence of Arabia on camel crossing sand.

Seasickness comes from confusion of the senses, a dissonance between expectations and actuality.

Get to the deck, eyes on the horizon

: I double down on avoiding anyone who might ask me how I’m doing, or who I suspect might care.

: Compulsively, and like a champ, I date. You wouldn’t believe how rarely death comes up.

This one is sweet, he speaks slowly, he thinks it’s dark that I’m researching seasickness. I resist the urge to pat his pretty head.

His father was an engineer in the Merchant Navy—that’s the direct translation to English, I don’t know what you guys call it—and his job was to make sure the motor never stopped. He traveled everywhere and saw the world. But mostly what he remembers is seasickness: You get dizzy in the beginning, but then you learn to cope.

Get to the deck and find the horizon. It will pass.