The Wasp, 1913 · page 91 of 364
The Wasp — 1913 — page 91: what you’re looking at
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This page contains prose fiction rather than a cartoon. It depicts a dramatic scene of someone awakening from either drowning or a deep unconsciousness—swimming upward through ocean depths toward consciousness. The protagonist regains awareness lying in bed, observing two faces: an unfamiliar young man and the governor of Nevis (a Caribbean island). The passage emphasizes sensory details of the underwater struggle and the disorientation of coming to. Without seeing the full narrative context, it's unclear what political or satirical point *The Wasp* intended here. The mention of the governor of Nevis suggests colonial Caribbean themes, possibly relevant to late 19th/early 20th-century American imperial interests, but the specific satirical target—whether mocking colonial officials, adventure narratives, or something else—cannot be determined from this excerpt alone.
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” 88 THE WASP dulled a tone. He felt the deep tides wash softly, yet mightily, across his breast; he felt the silt of the deep-sea bed creep and settle upon his motion- less limbs. The voice became less vague, less vast, more dis- tinct, as if it reached him through shallower wa- ters. And now it sounded almost human. Did it address itself particularly to him? Did it call him? He felt the fathoms of sea lighten on his breast and the silt of the sea floor slip away from his limbs. _ He aroused himself and swam upward, upward, through black waters and brown, through green tide-bands and blue. At last he swam frantically, with bursting lungs. He snatched for breath with a choking sob and opened his eyes. He lay on cool sheets and looked up at a while ceiling high above him. Two faces swam into view between his eyes and the distant ceiling—one that of a young man whom he had never seen before, the other that of the governor of Nevis. Captain Nash’s broad visage had lost much of Comichooks.com