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...said Ollie.***The stench of fish, sweat, and miscellaneous refuse rose up from London’s docks and met the fitfully descending sunlight halfway. With their wheelbarrow rattling along, Ollie and The Stable Boy moved quickly towards the H.M.S. Visconti. The Stable Boy had met the trading vessel??s wizened old Captain in a tavern on Fleet Street the previous week. After a night of drink, argument, and backgammon, The Stable Boy had convinced the Captain to take on two strangers with no papers. The Captain’s asking price had, of course, been outrageous...
...like: ‘I write fiction,’” he said, in the all-purpose voice he uses to mock everyone from himself to President Bush. “‘I view the world through fiction… I am a vessel??’” We laughed. My laugh was a little uneasy, though, because he had touched on part of my identity; I’m a creative writing student, and (try as I might) I don’t always find that so funny...
...couldn’t get copyright permissions for her first choice, she settled on La Dispute, which—like all of Marivaux’s plays—deals with the battle of the sexes. In this one, Bogart said, the playwright finally “found the vessel?? for everything he hoped to say about eros and civilization...
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