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Quine's Pine.(Poem)
QUINE'S PINE (Quine is the American philosopher Willard Van Quine. It is all explained on the internet.) I want a sloop. A flush-decked, ten-gun sloop, One mast, rigged fore-and-aft, is what I most Desire. But slooplessness is now my brother. I am notorious along the coast. In Montserrat they talk of nothing other (In Maracaibo too, and Guadeloupe): How ...
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