How are the ideas of waiting, living, and place interconnected in The Brown Wasps by Loren Eiseley? Trace his views, citing textual examples and discussing them.

Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends. no ship made sail next day until some shipmate had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost unfleshed by the cicones on that field.