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The handwritten fragment turns from touch to vastness, moving quickly from a resistant object or state into a sea-and-sky scale.

Even as a rough note, the page has a distinct upward sweep. `Nothing Could touch, It` begins with refusal or distance, and the following lines widen into `ocean` and `sky`. The ship appears as the voice or vehicle that teaches that scale.

A three-line handwritten aphorism, 'Nothing Could touch, It / A ship told me THE) / ocean to the sky'. The first line asserts something untouchable; the next two make a ship the teacher that measures the world from 'ocean to the sky', the full vertical sweep of the horizon. The stray capital 'THE)' with its trailing parenthesis is a rough letterform preserved from the scan. Though the band is 'mixed', the visible words and punctuation were reviewed as legible.