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Yeah Naive vast yeah Maybes We're reading stuff Allah shmoop

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so here we go We've got a five question passage

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here Pirates and ships people in a captain let's do

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a quick skin here and then we'll jump to the

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first question Well you look like a man cut away

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from the stake when the fire's overrun and wasted all

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the limbs without consuming them are taking away one particle

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from their compacted age robustness Boy this guy can write

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so power of later the whole grimm aspect of a

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have affect me livid brand new street in her moment

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grimness I was dismasted off japan but like his dismasted

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crafty shifted yet so they talk back then it was

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infinity of firmest fortitude And all right great Well someday

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you'll get to read moby dick and it'll take a

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while We know you'll think of shmoop all right Question

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one when the sailor mentions that captain ahab was dismasted

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in line eighteen what's he referring to or else go

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to eighteen there while i was describing him write it

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had previously come to me that this ivory leg had

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etc been fashion from the polished bone of the sperm

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whale's Jaw i he was dismasted off japan said a

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shipmate once but like his dismasted craft he shipped another

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mass without coming home for it He has a quivering

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what does that mean Well four mast our main mast

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or mizzen mast Yeah a ship has a bunch of

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masks You know our giant post that hold up the

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sails That's these things that thing right there that's a

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mast it's not past tense of master It makes sense

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then that when the crew member states that a have

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was dismasted well he's using sailor speak to tell us

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that captain may have lost one of his support beams

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I e a leg context also wins a hand here

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leg as the narrator has just finished describing a habit

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massive ivory leg which makes us think he only has

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one of the flesh and bone variety Got it So

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the answer is b captain has only one leg and

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the loser ones here Well there's no reference to a

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happy family in the past Injuries not this one And

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even though a halves boat may have crashed see thus

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smashing a real mast The sailors referring to the ivory

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leg fashion from us sperm whales job the sailor even

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mentions that has a whole slew of them in case

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his peg leg ever gets lost or stuck in the

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mud or something You know losing a leg would be

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enough to make anyone cranky which the sailors must get

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because they tend to steer clear of there Captain So 00:02:28.095 --> [endTime] that's It won a have one leg I stop

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