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But continually, inside my head, I saw the tongue of the harpooner, covered dry with sand, as

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Idler, how Scotty and the harpooner and myself had raked and scraped dimes and nickels with which to buy the whisky.

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I alone remained among the sleeping sailormen, the giant harpooner snoring like a whale, his head upon my feet.

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And with the blood of life thus freshening in me, my thirst multiplied on itself tenfold and my tongue and mouth and throat seemed as sanded as the tongue of the harpooner.

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It seems that afresh upon me is the thirst that was mine when tormented by the visioned tongue of the harpooner.

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And the giant harpooner was still roaring, his the last sounds in my ear, as I fell back on the lauhala mat, and was to all things for the time as one dead.

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There was a giant harpooner in the circle, whose singing was like the bellowing of bulls; and, gazing on him in amazement while he roared some song of the sea, when next I looked across the circle to Anapuni, Anapuni was gone.

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I knew again only that I was very thirsty, and before my swimming eyes, in mid-air and close up, dangled the sanded tongue of the harpooner.

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Scotty and the harpooner and with the oyster pirates -- because it was an act that men performed with whom I wanted to behave as a man.

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They commanded me to go with them, and they were not kind in their commanding; and as I uprose, the head of the giant harpooner was rolled off my feet, past the edge of the mat, into the sand.

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