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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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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)

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)
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