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Article: Sailor.
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- Esprit de Corps
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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THE SAILOR
Abbeyfield Publishers, 33 Springbank Ave, Toronto, ON, M1N 1G2
A somewhat unusual book crossed my desk recently, written by a naval Korean War veteran, Sydney Thompson. Thompson has written the book in the verbal past conditional tense, which makes it little hard to get into at first (e.g. "the sailor would have turned to his friend and said ...") which begs the question "did he, or didn't he?"
There are a number of "asides" -- such as the story of Lizzie Borden -- which could either be welcomed as a change of pace or considered a distraction from the main biographical theme, as well as a number of philosophical and religious ...