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Article: Coleridge on the semi-colon in 'Robinson Crusoe': problems in editing Defoe.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 1995
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge praises the episode in Robinson Crusoe in which Crusoe laments the futility of money. Crusoe, having returned to the shipwreck for the twelfth and, probably, last time, seeks to recover whatever he has not been able to retrieve earlier. In a locker, he discovers one drawer with three razors, a pair of scissors, and a dozen knives and forks; in another, he finds thirty-six pounds, European coin, some Brasil, some pieces of eight, and some gold and silver. At first, he determines to reject the money--no longer useful to him--and allow it to sink with the ship, but after momentary reflection, he decides to take it ashore with him. Coleridge's text of ...
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