Snow Falling on Cedars Death Quotes

It must have been that in the ghost fog that night he never saw the wall of water the Corona threw at him. The sea rose up from behind the fog and welled underneath the Susan Marie so that the coffee cup on the cabin table fell to the floor, and the angle of deflection high up the mast was enough to jar loose the astonished man who hung there not grasping the nature of what was happening, and still he did not foresee his death. (32.77)