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Musical improvisation

"Night after night they played there in the great cabin with the stern-windows open and the ship’s wake flowing away and away in the darkness…."

I’ve read Patrick O’Brian’s entire Aubrey-Maturin series six or eight times, so this single sentence is sufficient to return me to it. But the rest of it is worth reading. By the way, I thought Crowe’s movie was awful.

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