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“In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads;”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“Blimey. If you blokes are doing the likes o’ that on a reg’lar basis, I’m s’prised either o’ ya can walk ‘alf the time,” Penelope replied with a laugh that carried even through the bedroom door. “Ya don’t, by any chance, ‘ave any mates what likes women who know ‘ow to do whatever it is yer was doin’, do ya?”
― Tag Gregory