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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I just got bored shitless
of trying to work out what the fuck he was talking about half the time. I'm sure preserving 19th century Nantucket whaling slang was really fucking important but a readable book it does not make.

Edit: although one of my favourite literary quotes does come from that book.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 12:55, 1 reply, 13 years ago)
Do tell.

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:03, Reply)
And he piled upon the whale's white hump all the sum of rage and hate felt by his race from Adam down;
and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his heart's hot shell upon it.
(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:08, Reply)
Sexy!

(, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 13:18, Reply)

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