Did you know that more than half the world's population
lives within 60 miles of a coastline.
When I was a young sailor, I knew everything.
Now that I'm old, I know nothing.
Rapture of the Deep:
Medical condition known
as nautical narcosis. Its symptoms include an inability to use common words,
such as up, down, left, right, front, and back, and their substitution with
a variety of gibberish which the sufferer believes to make sense; a love
of small, dark, wet places; an obsessive desire to be surrounded by possessions
of a nautical nature, such as lamps made from running lights and tiny ship's
wheels; and a conviction that objects are moving when they are in fact standing
still. This condition is incurable.
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