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"But what made it bearable were [...] the moments of transcendent beauty and joy when it didn't matter who'd used the last of the rosin on their bow or who anyone had slept with, although someone–probably Sayid–had written 'Sartre: Hell is other people' [...] and someone else had scratched out 'other people' and substituted 'flutes.'"

Ooh, an intersection with Shakespeare! “From Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I omit them as altogether obsolete; and can hardly help suspecting them for mere sounds, full of Leviathanism, but signifying nothing.”

Oddly, I've spotted an error in the family tree on p. 348: both Henry IV and his son, Henry V, are listed as living from 1367-1413, thus leaving a mysterious gap between the death of Henry V and the birth of his own son in 1421! No miracle was needed, however, as a google search suggests that Henry V actually lived 1386-1422. He apparently died 17 days short of his 36th birthday.

"The details are sort of lost on me, especially when he starts jotting some sort of equation on a napkin. Despite calling myself Doctor Diablo, I only have a bachelor's degree."

“What he thought of death itself, there is no telling. [...] if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.”