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START: One long-ago summer – now, why am I thinking of this? – my son, Sebastian, said, ‘Mother? – Listen to this!’ – He read me Herman Melville’s description of the Encantadas, the Galapagos Islands.
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END: They were diving down on the hatched sea-turtles, turning sides open and rending and eating their flesh. Sebastian guessed that possibly only a hundredth of one per cent of their number would escape to the sea …
Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. p.14-15.
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