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If you go into the book not expecting much of the boat trip, itself, but expecting a large number of almost stream-of-consciousness reminiscences that are often laugh-out-loud funny, you'll get along fine. I can't really explain the book in a way that will do it justice, so I'll quote a bit:

"It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. I shall have to throw out a wing soon.

"And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it. I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it. No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do.

"But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair. I do not ask for more than my proper share.

"But I get it without asking for it - at least, so it appears to me - and this worries me."]]>