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ChallenA Publication of the Harper College Honors Society Fall 2003 - Issue three

Diary of a Book Addict

"The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as Iequate 'antique' with expensive. Iam a poor writer with an antiquariantaste in books and all the things Iwant are impossible to get over hereexcept in very expensive rare edi-tions, or in Barnes & Noble grimy,marked-up schoolboy copies." Thisis the opening letter of a wonderfulbook by Helene Hanff called 84,Charing Cross Road, the address of asecondhand bookstore tucked awayin London, where a New Yorkwriter sought to relieve her addic-tion for books and made friendswith people 3,000 miles away

This collection of lettersbetween a bookseller and a writerspanned 20 years. With each letter,the relationship between them slidcloser together and chronicled sev-eral important events at that time:post World War II London, theDodgers in the 1955 World Series,and the 1960 US. presidential cam-paign. This book isn't for everyone.It's for people who appreciate the

power of language; it's for that per-son starving for the feel of pulp andyearning for the smooth cadence ofink It relies on a reader's ability toabsorb what's taking place betweenthe lines and knowing what's under-stood, yet left unsaid.

After several months of cor-respondence, Cecily Farr— a secre-tary working for Frank Doel thebookseller— secretly wrote toHelene about how the staff haddetermined what she must look like."We love your letters and try toimagine what you look like. I'vedecided that you're young, and verysophisticated and smart looking.Old Mr. Martin (an owner of thebookstore) thinks you must be quitestudious-looking in spite of yourwonderful sense of humor" (12).Helene laughed that off and mod-estly told Cecily to "... tell him I'mso unstudious that I never went tocollege. And I'm about as smart-looking as a Broadway panhandler.I live in moth-eaten sweaters andwool slacks" (13). What's amazingis Helene's grasp of language eventhough she's self-taught. Reading alarge variety of books, she'd

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? / - feB^r-j Life of Pihas nothingto do withmath. AnIndian child'grows up inIan Indianjzoo, and dis-covers a

(deep affec-tion for God. But whoa! there,there; if your beliefs are not infavor of God or indifferent as adonkey, do not turn away for (Ipromise) there is nothing on decktrying to persuade. BecausePiscine "Pi" Patel is nothing of anevangelist, but a passionate son ofGod the novel is far and vastlyinformative without that touchypretext. The boy, of age sixteen atthe time, uses Christianity, Hinduand Islam as freeways like a spiri-tual plexus to his God. In that,there is a point of rolling impor-

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84 continued from page 1expanded her vocabulary and hadonly increased her hunger for moreto read. She especially loved sec-ondhand books since the previousowner left his own opinions aboutthe novel, whether it's penciledscribbling in the margin, or a wornbinding that opened to a passageoften visited. Helene gleefully toldFrank, "Savage Landor arrived safelyand promptly fell open to a Romandialogue where two cities had justbeen destroyed by war and every-body was being crucified and beg-ging passing soldiers to run themthrough and end their agony It'llbe a relief to turn to Aesop orRhodope where all you have toworry about is a famine. I do lovesecondhand books that open to thepage some previous owner readoftenest" (7).

Throughout her letters,Helene wanted to visit Frank andthe Charing Cross Road staff, butmost especially London, stackedwith its dusty history that's waitingto be read. It was often a sore pointfor Helene when her friends wereable to see London, who were anx-ious to peek at her "family" that's3,000 miles away Her friendsGinny and Ed sent this postcard toher:"You might havewarned us! Wewalked into yourbookstore and saidwe were friends ofyours and were near-ly mobbed. YourFrank wanted to takeus home for theweekend. Mr. Markscame from the backthe store just toshake hands with

friends- of-Miss-Hanff. Everybody inthe place wanted towine and dine us.We barely got outalive."

Frank Doel was Helene 'sdrug supplier, as she was addicted tobooks. She relied on his vast knowl-edge and his ability to get them, ifnot immediately, then he knewwhere to find them. She demon-strated her loyalty by reassuringFrank, "Never wonder if I've foundsomewhere else anymore. Whyshould I run all the way down to

I/1*1 St. to buy dirty, badly madebooks when I can buy clean, beauti-ful ones from you without leavingthe typewriter? From where I sit,

London's a lot closer than 17"1

Frank and Helene share apassion for history and for booksthemselves. After his death on

December 22nd, 1968, Frank's wifeNora wrote a description of him toHelene that spotlighted his gentilenature. "I only wish that you hadmet Frank and known him personal-ly, he was the most well-adjustedperson with a marvelous sense ofhumor, and now I realize such amodest person, as I have had lettersfrom all over to pay him tribute andso many people in the book tradesay he was knowledgeable andimparted his knowledge with kind-ness to all and sundry" (93).

There are several pointswithin 84y Glaring Cross Road thatgive historical references to impor-tant milestones of our past. Uponhearing from her friend that meatwas rationed, she felt outraged andsent over parcels to those at the

bookstore. Its value was well appre-ciated. While there was an imposedmeat ration set at about 20 cents perperson per week in 1951, Britishgovernment aggressively proposedan increase in weapons spending inthe billions because of the conflictwith Korea and the threat of com-munism. She told Frank, "Briantold me you are rationed to twoounces of meat per family per weekand one egg per person per monthand I was appalled" (7). In 1955,Helene asked Frank to cheer for herfavorite team, the Brooklyn Dodgerswhile they were about to playagainst their most intense rivals, theNew York Yankees. "I shall beobliged if you send Nora and thegirls to church every Sunday for thenext month to pray for the contin-ued health and strength of Messrs,Gilliam, Reese, Snider, Campanella,Robinson, Hodges, Furillo, Podres,Newcombe, and Labine, collectivelyknown as the Brooklyn Dodgers"(61). In 1960, Helene spoke of herpolitical leanings when she com-mented on newspaper stories thatspoke of the Democratic presiden-tial upset over the Republicans. TheDemocratic nominees were: LyndonB. Johnson, Stuart Symington,Hubert H. Humphrey, and John F.Kennedy. She says, "I belong to aDemocratic club, there were four-teen men over there the other night,eleven of them lawyers, came homeand read a couple of newspaper sto-ries about the presidential hope-fuls— Stevenson, Humphrey,Kennedy, Stassen, Nixon— alllawyers but Humphrey (79).Reading these letters connected meto an amazing and personal sense ofhistory

It's easy to see the power

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that language has in this work In aletter to Frank, Helene was appalledover the abuse of the English lan-guage that she saw everyday. Sinceher self-education enlightened herabout what the words actuallymeant, she's horrified that wordswere contorted and stretched to dothings that they weren't meant to do.For example, while she's looking fora new apartment she read a sign thatnaively stated, "One and TwoBedroom Apartments at Rents ThatMake Sense." She rightfully pointedout "Rents do NOT make sense.And prices do not sit around beingreasonable for anything, no matterwhat it says in the ad. I go throughlife watching the English languagebeing raped before my face and likeMiniver Cheevy, I cough and call itfate and go on drinking" (69).

Helene s descriptions are sodense with meaning and color thatevery time I read 84, Charing CrossRoad I gag on it, having to slowdown and chew on it slowly anddigest every meaning. Whenever Iread the description of The Shop byHelene s visiting friend Maxine, I getfat. I can just picture Helene's wist-ful demeanor with her eyes closedeach time that Maxine describes it."Its dim inside. You smell the shopbefore you see it; it's a lovely smell.I can't articulate it easily, but it com-bines must and dust and age, andwalls of wood and floors of wood.

The shelves go on forever. They goup to the ceiling and the/re old andkind of grey, like old oak that hasabsorbed so much dust over theyears they no longer are their truecolor" (28). Woe is me, and wistfulsigh! I can picture myself there,running my fingers over the tips ofthe dust-blanketed shelves, glancingat titles in languages unknown, andhearing the creak of the oakenfloorboards beneath me.

84, Charing Cross Road wasadapted to a play It was also madeinto a full-length film in 1987.Directed by David Hugh Jones, itstared Anne Bancroft, making a per-fect Helene; Anthony Hopkins, asthe impeccable Frank Doe; and JudiDench, who played Frank's wife,Nora. The film is available onDVDandVHS. The book isenhanced by the movie. It's best toread the book first, and then rentthe video. The chemistry betweenAnne Bancroft and AnthonyHopkins is visual sugar for the soul.It's an easy read, about an hour.However, with each additional read-ing, I noticed one more phrase, orone more nuance, that I hadn't seenbefore. The feelings that blanketedme while I read the book and sawthe movie stayed with me for hoursafterwards, much like a rich tiramisu.

written by Jason Winston

Anne Bancroft as Helene in the film adaptation of 84, Charing Cross Road.

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tance.But to write more on that

would be misleading; the religiousaspect is only about a third of the

tale.Zoo

keeping headsup a great dealof the novel,mostly to teachanimalistic rela-tions, but also toshow an ani-

mal's attitude towards a domesticenclosure. One may consequentlybe convinced zoos are not badplaces, assuming no mistreatment.

The third part of the tale issurvival when Pi is stranded on a26-foot lifeboat with an orangutannamed Orange Juice, a zebra witha broken leg, a hyena and aRichard Parker on water cloudedwith sharks. (Sometimes the ele-ments turn a horrible trick on thecompany.) Not too briefly thecompany is whittled down to thetwo strongest. How will it end?can the two ruling personalitiescoexist? which story do youbelieve?

Martel tells this story witha clean simplicity that neither shel-ters nor insults the reader, impera-tive for the reader to believe thefact within said novel. It is aneasy read, one for an otherwisebusy week, but not to write a busyessay on, unless one wishes toexpound on Pi's zoo to religioncomparison (which is not whollyinvalid).

Besides...I am reading Tropic of

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She Said YesFor this report I read the book

She Said Yes. This book was writ-ten by Misty Bernall, CassieBernall's mother. She wrote it inhopes that it would help parentsand kids connect. It is a New YorkTimes best seller and has sold overa million copies. Misty receivedthe coveted Christopher Award forthe book. There are Dutch,German, Italian, Korean, Swedish,Danish, Norwegian, Slovak,Romanian and Spanish translationsof the book with more on the way.

Answering a question is a simpletask to most. Answering importantquestions take more thought, butone never imagines they might losetheir life over the answer. CassieBernall did. She Said Yes is thestory of the unlikely martyrdom of

Cassie. On April 20th, 1999, at 11a.m., Cassie walked in the libraryat Columbine High School to workon her English homework. Withinthe hour, two gunmen would go ona shooting rampage, killing 14people, including her. When theyspotted her, they asked her if shebelieved in God. She answered,"Yes." Then they killed her.

The book starts with Mistytelling her side of that horrificTuesday, how the hours draggedand what she went through to findout that her daughter was dead. Iwould never be able to imaginehow that must have felt, but Mistypaints such a raw picture that itrips at your heart; you can putyourself there, panicked along withher. Then Misty devotes a chapterto Cassie and her relationship with

her father, Brad. Called "Daddy'sGirl," it outlines all thegood times they had andsome not so good ones.There are Cassie's cats,algebra, swimming, fish-ing and rock climbing.There is a vivid recol- /•>lection of Cassie's dirt »bike accident. Mistythen details the night-mare she experiencedafter Cassie's death, andhow she felt Brad coped !|so easily, and how shechose Cassie's finalattire for the casket, nota "nice dress", but shirt,jeans, puka shell neck-lace and the Doc Martins Cassiealways wore. She was upset thatthe lining was pink, she said nopink', Cassie was her daddy's girl.

The next part of the bookwas heartbreaking to read. It wasall about Cassie's problems beforeColumbine. How she plotted to killa teacher with her best friend, andwrote how she hated her parentsand family. There were many notesdiscovered by Misty about theoccult and death and dying, howher friend urged her to kill herself.Misty knew her friend, Mona (nother real name), was a bad influ-ence from when they met in thefifth grade. But she didn't knowhow to deal with it because, shesaid, you want your child to havefriends and be liked and connectwith someone. Misty and Bradconfronted Cassie and after muchyelling and argument, they pulledCassie out of her school and for-bade her to see Mona. They madethe decision right there to transferCassie to the Christian FellowshipSchool.

The next chapter describesthe strugglesearly on theyhad toendure.Cassiewouldscream inrages andargue every-day. Misty

d Bradplayed emo-

tional "tag[team." TheyI forbadeiCassie to do(anything: nojob, no

phone calls, no going out. If Mistywent out for an errand, Cassiewould pick up that phone and callMona. So Misty and Brad installeda recording device into the phoneand searched her backpack and herroom frequently. Cassie wrote anessay a few years later and saidthat she hated being at CFS andthat the other kids hated her. Mistyrecalls the process of rebuildingtheir relationship: regaining hertrust, being more the parent, notthe friend, and being with Cassie.Then Cassie made a friend, Jamie.She wasn't what Misty expected anice Christian girl to be, but foundout she was really warm. Jamierecalls that at first Cassie was real-ly closed off, hopeless, angry, andsuicidal. Misty felt Cassie wasbecoming less loyal to her oldfriends, but they harassed them somuch that they were forced tomove.

Then there was a u-turn. Ata youth retreat in the spring, Cassiewent and changed. People fromthe retreat saw it too, and her par-

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ents saw it, but weren't completelyconvinced. Misty says that themost growing happened after thatturning point. Cassie wanted to goto Columbine to "witness" to manyother kids. After her death, peersstated how what happened didn'tsurprise them. Cassie standing upfor what she believed in was whoshe was. As Cassie changed, so didher tastes. She now loved photog-raphy, poetry and nature andLOVED Shakespeare. Cassie attimes missed her old friends andhoped they could find what shefound. Misty shares notes Cassieand her friend wrote. Cassie men-tions God in all of them and herfaith and her struggles with herfaith. She was really open about itto her friend and the youth group.

Cassie is called the "martyrof Littleton." Misty isn't sure ifCassie should have that title. Shesays it's unlikely she is labeled thatbecause before she was a martyr,she was a teen. Misty says thatCassie was a stronger woman thanshe herself will ever be. She sayshow Cassie wouldn't be comfort-able with the label. Misty says thatthe world looks at Cassie's "yes"of April 20, but we need to look atthe daily "yes" she said. Cassie'sstory isn't just Misty's and Brad's,it belongs to whoever reads it andwhat they do with it to give itmeaning.

I have shared parts of it,and have truly taken it to heart.I'm touched by the true emotionthat pours out of the book. Ithought it was one of the bestbooks I ever read. It made methink what I would do in her situa-tion. It makes me thank God

everyday that I have to live forhim. It made me thank him for lis-tening to me, the teenager, the lessthan holy, for believing in me. Itmade me realize how small I was,and yet how I can make a differ-ence. This book will touch meevery time I read it, and I hope ifyou chose to read it, it will touchyou too.

written by Kristen Kleinau

Tender is theNleM

Barnes and Noble $14.99Gatsby's not the only great

Tender is the Night, by F.Scott Fitzgerald; quite possibly hasit all. It has murder, mystery,intrigue, romance, action, suspenseand charm. The book from start tofinish has an air of aristocratic witthat paints a vivid picture of theprocession of action. The openingscene starts the reader in the FrenchRiviera, but the characters, beingwealthy socialites, move all overEurope and the United States witheach change of scenery creatingmore suspense until the culmina-tion.

The book is written with thenarrator as omniscient. He sees all,knows all. There is also a lot of dia-log spliced into the depictions of thenarrator. This style of writing isvery poignant because the reader isable to see the contrast betweenwhat a character is saying and whatthat character actually thinks of thesituation. The narrator pays partic-ular attention to the three main

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Cancer at the time of this writing.Every printed character is the bestbook I've read, but would anyonebut a writer know that, so...sowhat? I don't know how many ofyou already know that this is notwriting, probably not enough. Toaccomplish that, one still has tolose their humanity, become inhu-man- Henry Miller's idea, notmine.

Why, then are you readingwords in black ink on white paper?If they've not been written, whatare you reading? Type, ob-la-di.Typing my opinions without muchdesire, there is little meaning hereto you or me. Truthfully, I'd ratherbe reading Miller than citing .him,and have everyone else do Simi-larly. But that's not going tohappen, because writers are alwaysa dying lot, and our era wants notjust life but youth and not justspeed but pleasantries. Granted,the reader-writer relationship, thatbond Holden Caulfield describes asa pick-up-the-phone-to-call rela-tionship is hard to find in any gen-eration. Yet here you read an arti-cle written in another formula to anend, with little concern for theprocess.

All of this is to be reflectedon Mr. Martel's work; he is a high-end average writer, and you mightread his book, Life of Pi, and youwould probably enjoy it, which isan assumption based on my owninformal survey. But, you shouldalso read Henry Miller's books,too; he is a Writer. Don't beoffended by the profane lifestylethat he is; he's inhuman.

written by rachel shine

PRODUCE, WERE IT BUT THE INFINITKIMAL FRACTION Of A PRODUOS THE UTMOST THOU HAST IN THEE; OUT WITH IT! UP, UP!

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F. Scott in 1926

characters of the story: Rosemary,Dick, Nicole. The story is told fromeach character's stance to the pointwhere it feels like that character istelling the story.

The book is divided intothree parts giving each charactertheir own book, in a sense. The firstsection is defined by the events thata young Rosemary Hoyt encoun-ters. Rosemary is a budding starletfrom California who ventured onvacation with her mother to Europe.The story starts with the pair check-ing into the Gausse's Hotel.Rosemary is quite unsatisfied withher surroundings and expresses thisto her mother, but her opinionchanges when she encounters thecharismatic Dr. Dick Diver. Diveris already married, but Rosemary,with the encouragement of hermother, decides to pursue Dick any-way.

Rosemary is a very innocentcharacter in the beginning of ourstory. She has just finished her firststaring role in a movie, Daddy'sLittle Girl, which describes her to aT. She is still quite young, justturning eighteen as the story begins.She is not used to being famousand, for that matter, is just gettingher legs as her own woman. Theencounter with Dick Diver is a piv-

otal point in young Rosemary's lifebecause it is the point at which hermother does not solely retain heraffection.

The story shifts from itsfocus at the beginning of book twowhen Dick Diver, just out of med-ical school, first meets his futurebride Nicole. The scene is set inZurich in 1917. Dick is visiting afriend and fellow psychologistFranz Gregorovius at theZurchsee's clinic. Upon leavingfrom the visit Dick noticed a beau-tiful young woman, Nicole, in thegarden of the hospital. They walkand talk, and Dick leaves an addressat where he can be reached. Overthe next year Nicole writes vigor-ously to Dick and it is in the lettersthat he finds she is a patient at thehospital and wasn't just visiting.Dick becomes intrigued and whenhe returns he consults Franz abouthis predicament. Dick decides tocourt and eventually marry Nicole.At the beginning of the courtingDick finds out that Nicole is quitewealthy. Dick is a noble man andwants to provide for his house, so inthe beginning of the marriage themoney is kept separated, Dick's andNicole's. As time progresses thecouple starts living a more elegantlife off of the wealth acquired byNicole.

Fitzgerald also delves intothe psychotic mind of Nicole Diveras apart of book two. This is a veryintricate picture because Nicole suf-fers from Schizophrenia. The nar-rator goes into depth of some ofNicole's thoughts, and through thisview the reader gets a chilled andsomewhat disturbing view of what

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it feels like to have voices in thehead.

Nicole stars in book three.She is starting to realize that she haswhat it takes to be her own woman.She no longer needs Dick as acrutch to which she leans on for herown sanity. As Nicole gets better itseems that Dick gets worse andeventually loses self-control withhelp from the massive amounts ofalcohol he drinks to escape. Nicoleand Dick start to drift and Nicolefinds refuge in the arms of anotherman.

This is a must read for thoseseeking "The Great AmericanNovel." It is full of twist and turnsthat keep the reader guessing andthe story interesting. The storydoes have its happier moments, butfor the most part is dismal. It leavesthe reader with the belief that truelove doesn't exist.

written by Joe Meister Jr.

Literal Starvation"In 1990 the number of

illiterates in the Arab states was 61million, representing 48.7% of thepopulation at the age of 15 andabove." This statement was report-ed at the regional Arab conferenceon education this year in Cairo andreported on ArabNews.com. It isstill over 68 million people today,38 percent of the Arab community.Individual countries do have theirown statistics, and some have vir-tually eliminated the problem ofilliteracy. ArabNews.com reportsJordan, Palestine, United ArabEmirates, Qatar and Kuwait have

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reached this point.Places where illiteracy is a largeproblem harms the educational sys-tem and thus tampers with theinter-country relations withoutcapacity or drive towards diplo-matic problem-solving. Morocco,Iran, Yemen, Algeria, Omen andEgypt are among the countries inthat situation, wroteArabNews.com.

Wednesday, November

12 , the Chicago Tribune ran anarticle concerning the nearly unbe-lievable low literacy habit in Arabcountries.Authors, teachers, intellectuals ofevery developed nation complainpeople do not read enough thesedays; in Arab countries like Egypt,a best seller sells 5,000 copies inan area of 280 million people, andmost books never print more than1,000 copies.

It is not entirely that theycannot read; the Arab populationsimply doesn't anymore. PublisherIbrahim al-Mowallem blames thedepression on the prevailing feel-ing of hopelessness. Their econo-my is so stagnant that people can-not afford to pay 25 Egyptianpounds ($3.50 in American dollars)for a book said Cairo Universityprofessor and translator AhmedMostageer. Was that not a prob-lem, "reading and writing areimpaired by censorship, poor edu-cation, religious fundamentalismand war," reported the article fromthe first UN report on the subject,written by Arab scholars. Islamicfundamentalism is on the rise, onlyto restrict publishing in a directrelation. Though five percent ofthe world's population is Arabic,

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only 1.1 percent of the world'sbooks are published there. And, ittakes much longer for a book to betranslated into Arabic; five times asmany books are translated intoGreek each year, though Greek isspoken by almost 270 million peo-ple less than the population of theArab world.

The scholars reported theamount of red tape writers andpublishers must please. To be pub-lished in all Arab countries, 22countries' censors need to approve."The noose is so tight that very lit-tle squeezes through," said NaderFergany, the report's head writer.Aficionados searching for rare andany person looking for a title con-gregated at the Ezbekiya gardens-over a decade ago. Since then, thecity put a parking garage and sub-way stop there, and drove away theculture. Though the gardens havere-opened, the businesses havenever recovered.

"We have the Ministry ofCulture on one side, and the funda-mentalists on the other," saidGamal Al Ghitany author and edi-tor of the literary journal, al Akbaral Adab "Culture is caught in themiddle."

Books are not the singlesufferers, either. Today newspa-pers are printed in quantities of 5per 1,000, whereas in "developednations" 285 per 1,000 are printed.

Ahmed Al-Shahawi is anEgyptian poet whose bookCommandments for LovingWomen was banned by Al-AzharUniversity in Cairo, the highestauthority of Sunni Islam on thegrounds that, in the opinion of theUniversity, the passages desecratedIslam.

The poet intends to pro-mote his book regardless of theban. "I will challenge them andpublish the book ten times over"Al-Shahawi decared in a room fullof years of old newspapers.

Banned and censored bookshave their fighters, though the dan-ger arguably outweighs the end.Dismissing the religious declara-tions, orfatwa, has resulted indeath for some.

Mahfouz, an Egyptian whowon the Nobel Prize for literaturein 1988, was stabbed by a militantgroup who cited the fatwa of Al-Azhar as the catalyst of the attack.

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I want a world of men and women ... of rivers that carry you places, not rivers of legends, but rivers that put you in touch with other men and women, with archi­tecture, religion, plants, animals ... I want rivers that make oceans like

Shakespeare and Dante, rivers which do not dry up in the void of the past.

Oceans, yes! Let us have more oceans, new oceans that blot out the past, oceans

that create new geological formations, new topographical vistas and strange, terri­

fying continents, oceans that destroy and preserve at the same time, oceans that

we sail on, take off to new discoveries, new horizons. Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer

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