A Wandering Coracle

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A Wandering Coracle
Travels with Jenni: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Travels with Jenni: New Bedford, Massachusetts

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian" - from Melville's Moby Dick

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Okay, I can now declare this the best pulpit I have ever seen in my entire life.

I saw it on a shelf, next to a book about a serial killer of the 1930’s and one about the history of hate mail. I figured this shelf must have been for the books the library’s owner planned never to read and completely ignore, as the book in the middle was Herman Melville’s …

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