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The pirate fleet, led by Caroline & London, acted as a focus for a seperate
brand of discontent. A light in one of the cabins went on, then flicked off
again after a few moments. Stars, like individuals, age & change.

In myth & fairy tale, the metaphor of devouring often stands in for sex.
Rub shoulders with the third man & meet a very educated Rita, why doncha?
The counter culture soon came into contact with a culture of convenience.

He removes his mask with a flourish to reveal an eye patch (left) & a
monocle (right). The very term ‘folk revival’ implies that something
was already moribund. If you don’t know where to stop, don’t start!

It is widely believed that Bird’s Custard is one of the earliest examples
of convenience food. Improved methods of cultivation can increase our
supply so that we have no need to fear overpopulation in the future.

There were not many British seamen who missed the chance of piracy if
they saw it. We are undoubtedly in the realm of consumption. Production
in a modern economy generates uncertainty through time.

The masks gave people a liberty that turned the most refined ones into
hungry animals. This seems to say less about radio than about either tv
or film. All that remained was to take to the streeets & tear down the walls.

Re-entry from peak experience is notoriously difficult to achieve yet the
sensations of sheep are not of unusual intensity. He was much thinner
than I’d remembered him, very pale & with a moist gleam about his face.

A culture of convenience is inevitably a culture of laziness. Yet something
within me was aware of an enormous gulf of darkness very close to us. The
same explanation which applies to phobias also applies to the anxiety dream.

The hairyness of the beast has exercised great appeal in the literature of
piracy. It’s strange how a random encounter in a foreign land can change
your whole life. However, let us not exaggerate our visual handicaps.

As piracy grew in complexity, rich influential men who enjoyed a gamble took
part in financing it. ‘We were all extremely ugly people. We were outcasts, the
unwashed’. A sickness arose in me, more wretched than anguish.

I began to recall what I knew of cannibals as the pirates worked out a basic
insurance scheme. I don’t believe they knew that I was Long John Silver.