Puddle it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be all right, because this World was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. When Walter Raleigh met Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is reputed to have thrown his coat over
Queen Elizabeth 2 build it at their shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland. The agreed price was ₤25,427,000 with provision for escalation of labour and materials increases, with an agreed delivery date of May 1968. To assist with its construction the British government provided financial assistance to Cunard in the form of a ₤17.6 million loan at 4.5% interest. The keel was laid down on 5 July 1965, as hull number 736 on the same slipway where previous Cunard liners such as , , "Queen Mary", and "Queen Elizabeth" had been constructed. As construction continued on the new ship, Cunard found itself in increasing financial