Word: mainmast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rites of Passage. For all of Talbot's well-heeled stuffiness, he constantly betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole imaginable world" of his ship rattles his aristocratic preconceptions. The white line painted across the deck at the mainmast, segregating the common seamen and emigrants fore from the officers and better class of people aft, comes to seem ridiculous as the peril shared by everyone aboard increases. First Lieut. Summers reassures him, "This voyage will be the making of you, Mr. Talbot. At moments I even detect a strong streak of humanity...