‘Everything you just said is true,’ he said, watching the waves coming in, ‘and when you know people who have drowned, or not come back to port after a storm, you feel it all the more cruelly. It took me a long time to learn to actually love the sea. Back when I was a boy, becoming a sailor seemed to me the only way out of the village where I grew up. But I was very seasick to begin with. I’m glad, now. My first captain would only apprentice those who had no sea legs. He said that all there was to learn about life could be learned by hanging your head overboard and throwing up into ocean
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