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Admirable how little quarter it gives to the modern reader, but a little dense with period-accurate seaman argot. Needs to be read with Wikipedia on hand at all times—which I don’t have time for. Might try again one day.

Put down and didn’t pick up again. Maybe made it a 1/4 of the way through.

Reminded of the John Ganz tweet about left- and right-wing intellectuals

The terrorism part feels so dated—terrorists w/o ideology, villainy w/o villains. The “system” where no agency exists.

-far better than Day of the Triffids
-omg the exposition is dreadful
-characterization almost non-existent
-characters who should be fun (Uncle Alex) are merely tedious
-obvious metaphor for queerness