Making for the harbour mouth, the British ship's bow and stern alternately rose and plunged into the incoming waves; the propeller at times was spinning in air, requiring a careful hand on the throttle to keep the shaft from cables, the cruiser finally escaped the anchorage into the open sea, an achievement not known to " Calliope " s crew for some time, as sea spray and spume had reduced visibility to nothing.
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In an early scene, while walking through Knoxville with his father, they pass the station, and Agee noted how its stained glass " smouldered like an exhausted butterfly . " In another scene, while crossing the Asylum ( Western ) Avenue Viaduct, he wrote, " the L & N yards lay on his left, feint skeins of steel, blocked shadows, little spumes of steam . " In a later scene, Agee describes the crowded L & N waiting room, in which his family waited to catch a train to the Great Smoky Mountains.
