Hannibal: Contorno spoilers!
Will sailing across the Atlantic is doable! In fact it’s common enough that a simple Google search turns up entire how-to documents and insider tips from sailors sharing their personal experience with first-timers. It’s usually done in winter and you can expect the trip to take about 3 weeks in a small boat like his. Going it alone does make it significantly more difficult because the demands of sailing require constant vigilance and a fair amount of strength and skill (at a number of tasks), but it does happen, most often for sailing competitions.
But how much do I love that Will did it? Of course it makes sense for him in terms of preventing his travel from being tracked. But I LOVE thinking about what it means for his headspace. To want to be THAT alone in his own mind. To want to pit himself against the planet itself and let it strip him down to the absolute fundamentals. To be so decimated by his experiences that he’s lost any sense of concern for the risk or brutality of this trip. (And honestly, should he care? Considering he’s looking for Hannibal, death by ocean doesn’t seem like it’d be that different. Maybe it’d even solve his problems for him.)
I wonder if it helps him finally stop thinking too much, or if he’s using the distraction of three weeks of in-the-moment survival as a way to avoid asking himself the questions he knows he’ll eventually have to confront. I wonder if he feels like it’s his own personal Odyssey. Does the idea that Fate is mocking him appeal to him? Or does he think of this as crossing the Styx? Maybe it’s just soothing to be surrounded by something so eternal and infinite that it finally puts him and his problems into perspective. At that scale, even Hannibal doesn’t loom that big.
And of course as liminality and boundary-crossings go, it doesn’t get more primally absolute than the ocean itself. Birth, death, lifeblood (did you know seawater is almost the exact same chemical composition as human blood?). Trackless yet leading everywhere, constantly changing and changeless.
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