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Wind, Wine, and Whaling Line
Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils, twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction. All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions... …at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed
The Land of Slopportunity
April 21, 1901 On Friday we got it working – most stubborn Union Pacific engine we ever touched. We were all grease and sweat and profanity, seconds away from calling it a wash. The Baron announced a day off at the diamond. None of us are keen on baseball, but of
7 contradictions
I Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself. — Miles Davis II Words don't matter; words are the missing piece. The world pretty much has a consensus on the big stuff — "hurting kids bad," "public utilities good" — so instead of
Chat, is this real?
The fall of the fifth wall and the stubbornness of truth