Unnamed Sailors

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-10 10:19
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Unnamed Sailors
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Unnamed Sailors
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The "men who said the ship [Sutpen sails on] was going to the West Indies" in Absalom! (197) may not have been sailors or shipmates, but the inference seems justified by the narrative fact that Sutpen "learns to be a sailor" to get himself to the Caribbean (200).

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