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...require. He made her eat frozen Birds Eye peas for breakfast and then throw up; he seemed to get along best with very young girls; they couldn't even manage to have sex. Any spurned lover can understand Maynard's desire to tell all: after convincing her they are "landsmen"--soulmates--Salinger dumps the vulnerable teenager cruelly and without explanation. The problem is, for someone who uses the letter I as if there were no other vowels on her keyboard, Maynard turns out not to have an introspective bone in her body...
...first American to do so. The natural text for Hopper's city painting had been written by Melville in the first pages of Moby Dick: "Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries ... But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone...
Tribes develop among drivers trapped near each other. Foraging parties are appointed (but for the most part are repulsed by landsmen living near the motorway), and the sick are cared...
...partisan of sail, but he is no salt-sprayed sentimentalist. Sailing men may have loved their ships and their calling, but "it was first and foremost a source of employment, a means of livelihood. [The sailor] hated the sea as a savage enemy." Says Author Villiers tartly: "It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters on the famed Cutty Sark...
...landsmen all, whoever...