“Ooah,” says Captain Van der Decken, pacing the poop deck, “it’s der doom what I feel upon me, ah, der crushing despair of immortality!”<\/p>\n
“You’ve been doing it for like seventy years,” groans Longinus, and pauses to vomit. “I’m sixteen hundred and I still get seasick.”<\/p>\n
The captain switches to his native tongue. Unfortunately, Longinus can pretty much comprehend it.<\/p>\n
“I don’t care if this is<\/i> the only ship we can both ride,” he growls at his fellow traveler, “it’s not worth the dinner show.”<\/p>\n
Up in the crow’s nest, Ahasuerus manages to grin maddeningly right through his mouth harp solo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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