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I'm floored by this. Just the way he moves around in time, drops off a story, illustrates it, picks it up again, this is perfect craftsmanship.

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness.

"He liked opening cans."

It is amazing how Crusoe views the world through his particular European lens. He rails against the evils of cannibalism and plans sorties and raids agains the barbarians around him, but has zero qualms about taking one of them as his slave. He goes to pains to teach "the savage to speak" as though this person didn't already have a language of his own. It's a case study of imperialism at its height.