sufferance

Perhaps for some—the intrepid and legendary explorers and today's possessed polar workers — the inexplicable pull of the pole stems from the sufferance of a magnetic drive.

“He owns them absolutely. He crushed them and they exist only by his sufferance,” said Fried.

“He’s caught between the reality that he knows and understands and the perspectives and desires and agendas of the owners at whose sufferance he serves,” Edwards said.

It is a story about who gets to go where, who gets to exist safely in public, and who is only there on sufferance.

“The message they are getting is, ‘You are here on sufferance,’” he added.