Northbound Drake. Two sea days. Restless hum of homeward restuffing (guests), reset and gear up for the next (us). Lecture. Lecture. Boot & gear return. In secret, when roommate’s busy elsewhere, hold open clothbound red-ribbon-marked Moby-Dick from least-used ship library shelf (classics), hunch over digital recorder & read what’s assigned me: Chapter 104. Melville’s sentences roil strange, vast, intestinal. Background clang of waves against hull.
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