Cabin (Processing Ship): Sealed, the death-preserver becomes a buoyant life-preserver, for here too archaic Ark holds definition. Ark is ship, and cabinet, but also casket. A midshipman swept from the sinking deck, wave-tossed, has “been shipwrecked and cast upon [another] deserted ship.” (Umberto Eco in Island of the Day Before, p 1) Unfathomably he fully finds himself captain to his own coffin, clinging for life to his deliverer risen from depth.