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"You sound as if you were gargling a lot of words in your mouth and lost a bet every time you spilled a few. "

This is billed as a prequel to Cold Comfort Farm, but is really a collection of short stories with the title story being one of them. All of them incredibly well written.

Chapter 35, The Mast-Head
There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.

Moby Dick Chapter 7
"...take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot."

"love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."

Virtue's greatest modern triumph was the nonviolent dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Its lesson must be cherished and taught. - James Carroll

My attention span seems to have shortened so I'm enjoying reading little bits of several books at a time.