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¡¡¡¡Certainly, among my many new trades, I shone least as a sailmaker. I could sail them better than make them, and I had no doubt of my power to bring the schooner to some northern port of Japan. In fact, I had crammed navigation from textbooks aboard; and, besides, there was Wolf Larsen's star-scale, so simple a device that a child could work it. ¡¡¡¡As for its inventor, beyond an increasing deafness and the movement of the lips growing faint and fainter, there had been little change in his condition for a week.
oil painting But on the day we finished bending the schooner's sails he heard his last, and the last movement of the lips died away, but not before I had asked him, 'Are you all there?' and the lips had answered, 'Yes.' The last line was down. Somewhere within that tomb of the flesh still dwelt the soul of the man. Walled by the living clay, that fierce intelligence we had known
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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