1. Ow.Copy !req
2. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
3. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save our suppliant soul.Copy !req
4. To four weeks.Copy !req
5. No, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
6. It's bad luck to leave
a toast unfinished, lad.Copy !req
7. Oh, meanin'... meanin' no disrespect.Copy !req
8. Man what don't drink
best have his reasons.Copy !req
9. Uh... Ain't it... I...Copy !req
10. I... I understood
it's against regulations, sir...Copy !req
11. Did you?Copy !req
12. I did, sir. From, uh...
From them's manual.Copy !req
13. Didn't picture you a readin' man.Copy !req
14. Well, I ain't trying for trouble.Copy !req
15. Then you'll do as I say.Copy !req
16. That's in your book too.Copy !req
17. To four weeks.Copy !req
18. Aye. Aye. The cistern needs a-lookin' to.Copy !req
19. One of your duties, lad.
Or didn't y'read yourself about it?Copy !req
20. You'll clean the brass and the clockwork,
and you'll tidy up the quarters after.Copy !req
21. And there's well more
to be mended outside.Copy !req
22. D'you hear me, lad?Copy !req
23. Yes, sir.Copy !req
24. Aye, sir!Copy !req
25. Aye, sir.Copy !req
26. When the fog clears,
you'll work through the dog watch.Copy !req
27. Doggin' it?Copy !req
28. I was 'specting I'd get up
to see the lantern.Copy !req
29. I tend the light.Copy !req
30. Well, the rules is alternatin' shifts.Copy !req
31. It's the mid-watch that's to dread, lad.
My watch, night to morning.Copy !req
32. Some new junior man I'm fixed with.Copy !req
33. See to your duties. The light is mine.Copy !req
34. Son of a bitch!Copy !req
35. Shingles.Copy !req
36. Tend to 'em after the cistern.Copy !req
37. And the lamp, she needs oil.Copy !req
38. Aye, sir.Copy !req
39. Go!Copy !req
40. Move it.Copy !req
41. You don't go in there!Copy !req
42. - Oil, sir.
- Tired? Use this next time.Copy !req
43. Save you a hell of a lot of trouble.Copy !req
44. Catch your breath, lad.Copy !req
45. I said, catch your breath, lad.Copy !req
46. Then bring that drum back down
the ladder well where y'found it.Copy !req
47. 'Less you're fixin'
to burn the whole light down.Copy !req
48. Then see to the rest of your duties.
You're behindhand already.Copy !req
49. - Aye, sir.
- You're too slow. You a dullard?Copy !req
50. No, sir.Copy !req
51. Fooled me.Copy !req
52. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
53. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.Copy !req
54. Still tastes o'the head?Copy !req
55. Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad.
Now is the time for gab and chatter.Copy !req
56. Y'best be enjoying it.Copy !req
57. Come a fortnight,
and the brace of us'll be wantin'Copy !req
58. to be ever silent as the tomb.Copy !req
59. I ain't much for talkin'.Copy !req
60. Reckon you're the first?Copy !req
61. No, sir. I don't.Copy !req
62. Y'ain't.Copy !req
63. Y'ain't.Copy !req
64. The Chicopee, a fine-un she were.Copy !req
65. Clean-built and trig-lookin'.Copy !req
66. None more fleet in '64 than she.Copy !req
67. We were on the breaks.Copy !req
68. A mutiny, it were.Copy !req
69. And why, ask ye? Why?Copy !req
70. What's the terrible part
of a sailor's life, ask ye, lad?Copy !req
71. 'Tis when the work stops
when you're twixt wind and water.Copy !req
72. Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil.Copy !req
73. Boredom makes men to villains,
and the water goes quick, lad, vanished.Copy !req
74. The only med'cine is drink.Copy !req
75. Keeps them sailors happy,
keeps 'em agreeable,Copy !req
76. keeps 'em calm, keeps 'em...Copy !req
77. Stupid.Copy !req
78. Curse me if there ain't an old tar spirit
somewheres in ye, lad.Copy !req
79. Out with it, lad.Copy !req
80. Uh...Copy !req
81. What, uh...
What made your last keeper leave?Copy !req
82. Him? Me second?Copy !req
83. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
84. Died.Copy !req
85. Went mad, he did.Copy !req
86. Ravin' about sirens, merfolk,
bad omens and the like.Copy !req
87. In the end, weren't no more sense left
in him than an hen's tooth.Copy !req
88. He believed that there was
some enchantment in the light.Copy !req
89. He notioned that St. Elmo
had cast his very fire into it.Copy !req
90. Salvation, said he.Copy !req
91. Tall tales.Copy !req
92. I seen ye sparrin' with a gull.Copy !req
93. Best leave 'em be.Copy !req
94. Bad luck to kill a seabird.Copy !req
95. More tall tales.Copy !req
96. Bad luck to kill a seabird!Copy !req
97. Pay me no mind, lad.Copy !req
98. None.Copy !req
99. Fix us up some coffee.Copy !req
100. Long night ahead.Copy !req
101. Drop o'coffee will do us good.Copy !req
102. You've been neglecting your duties, lad!Copy !req
103. Don't deny it!Copy !req
104. What do you call that?Copy !req
105. - Sir?
- What?Copy !req
106. I... I mopped and swept twice over, sir.Copy !req
107. Ye lyin' dog.Copy !req
108. - I swept 'em.
- 'Tis begrimed and bedabbled.Copy !req
109. Unwiped, unwashed, and distained.Copy !req
110. You get some kinda peart
outta molestin' me?Copy !req
111. Come now?Copy !req
112. I already says...Copy !req
113. How dare ye contradict me, y'dog.Copy !req
114. Now look here,
I ain't never intended to be no housewifeCopy !req
115. nor slave in takin' this job.Copy !req
116. It ain't right.Copy !req
117. These lodgings is more ramshackle
than any shanty boy's camp I ever seen.Copy !req
118. The Queen of England's
own fancy housekeeperCopy !req
119. couldn't even done no better
than what I done,Copy !req
120. 'cause I tell you, I scrubbed
this here place twice over, sir...Copy !req
121. And I say y'did nothin' o'the sort.Copy !req
122. And I say y'swab it again,
and y'swab it proper-like this time,Copy !req
123. and you'll be swabbin' it
ten times more after that.Copy !req
124. And if I tells ye to pull up and apartCopy !req
125. every floorboard and clapboard
of this here houseCopy !req
126. and scour 'em down with your bare,
bleedin' knuckles, you'll do it!Copy !req
127. And if I tells ye to yank out
every single nailCopy !req
128. from every molderin' nail-hole
and suck off every speck of rustCopy !req
129. till all them nails sparkle
like a sperm whale's pecker,Copy !req
130. and then carpenter the whole light station
back together from scrap,Copy !req
131. and then do it all over again,
you'll do it!Copy !req
132. And by God and by golly,Copy !req
133. you'll do it smilin', lad,
'cause you'll like it.Copy !req
134. You'll like it 'cause I says you will!Copy !req
135. Contradict me again,
and I'll dock your wages.Copy !req
136. D'ye hear me, lad?Copy !req
137. Aye, sir.Copy !req
138. Ah.Copy !req
139. Swab, dog. Swab!Copy !req
140. Keep 'em steady, lad!Copy !req
141. Aye, sir.Copy !req
142. Whitewash must be even, lad.
Bright! Shinin'!Copy !req
143. Like a silver whorehouse token.
Give them sailors a proper daymark.Copy !req
144. They're not going to see it
in a goddamn storm!Copy !req
145. Keep your temper now, lad.Copy !req
146. 'Tis fine work. And you're makin'
high marks in me logbook.Copy !req
147. Them's gospel.Copy !req
148. I'll drop y'down a few feet.Copy !req
149. Easy!Copy !req
150. Never been in better hands.Copy !req
151. Easy!Copy !req
152. Quit your flailing, lad.Copy !req
153. - I ain't!
- Y'are!Copy !req
154. - Keep still!
- I am!Copy !req
155. Git! Git! Git! Git!Copy !req
156. Thank ye, lad.Copy !req
157. Winslow.Copy !req
158. Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
159. These last two weeks, I'd...Copy !req
160. I'd like it if you'd call me by my name.Copy !req
161. Listen to ye,Copy !req
162. giving orders, lad.Copy !req
163. - Winslow.
- All right, all right.Copy !req
164. Suits me just as fine, Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
165. So, what brung such a one as ye
to this damned rock?Copy !req
166. Such as what?Copy !req
167. Pretty as a picture.Copy !req
168. Only joshing, lad, only josh...Copy !req
169. - Winslow.
- Winslow.Copy !req
170. What brung ye...Copy !req
171. to this rock, Ephraim Winslow?Copy !req
172. What were your work afore?Copy !req
173. - Timber.
- Timber?Copy !req
174. Big timber. Up north. Canada ways.Copy !req
175. - Hudson Bay outfit?
- The same.Copy !req
176. True what they say?
"Forest as far as the eye can see"?Copy !req
177. Yes, sir. Spruce, tamarack, white pine.Copy !req
178. "Bush," them folk up there call it.Copy !req
179. Had enough of trees, that it, then?Copy !req
180. Yes, sir.Copy !req
181. Can't say I blame ye.Copy !req
182. I hearn tell about that life. Hard goin'.Copy !req
183. Work one man harder
than two horses, they say.Copy !req
184. No, thankee.Copy !req
185. The sea, she's the only situation
wantin' for me.Copy !req
186. Miss it?Copy !req
187. Ain't nothing what can touch it.Copy !req
188. But I can't...Copy !req
189. be draggin' me old stump about.Copy !req
190. Nay. Not worth the trouble.Copy !req
191. Now I'm a wickie and a wickie I is.Copy !req
192. And I'm damn-well wedded
to this here light,Copy !req
193. and she's been a finer,
truer, quieter wifeCopy !req
194. than any alive-blooded woman.Copy !req
195. You ever married?Copy !req
196. Thirteen Christmases at sea...Copy !req
197. little 'uns at home.Copy !req
198. She never forgave it.Copy !req
199. 'Tis for the better.Copy !req
200. Since we're getting too friendly,
Ephraim Winslow,Copy !req
201. tell me, what's a timber man
want with being a wickie?Copy !req
202. Not enough quiet for ye up north?Copy !req
203. Sawdust itching your nethers?Copy !req
204. Foreman found ye too high-tempered
for carrying an ax?Copy !req
205. Like you said,
I just had enough of trees, I guess.Copy !req
206. Since I left Dad,Copy !req
207. I done every kind of work
that can pay a man.Copy !req
208. Some I ain't near proud of.Copy !req
209. Drifter, eh?Copy !req
210. No, just...Copy !req
211. Can't find a post
I can take a real shine to,Copy !req
212. so I keep movin' along.Copy !req
213. And I ain't the kind to look back
at what's behind him, see.Copy !req
214. On the run?Copy !req
215. Now look here, ain't nothin' wrong
with a man startin' fresh, startin' new,Copy !req
216. just lookin' to earn a living.Copy !req
217. No.Copy !req
218. Just like any man,Copy !req
219. just wanna settle down
quiet-like with some earnings.Copy !req
220. I read someplace
that a man could earn 630 or...Copy !req
221. I read $1,000 a yearCopy !req
222. if he tends a light far off shore.Copy !req
223. The further away, the more he earns.Copy !req
224. I read that, and hell, I says, work.Copy !req
225. Save my earnings.Copy !req
226. Sometime soon I'll raise my own roof,Copy !req
227. somewheres up country,
with no one to tell me what for.Copy !req
228. And that's all.Copy !req
229. Same old borin' story, eh?Copy !req
230. Well, you asked.Copy !req
231. Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?Copy !req
232. In 'em's the souls of sailors
what met their maker.Copy !req
233. You a prayin' man, Winslow?Copy !req
234. Not as often as I might.Copy !req
235. But I'm God-fearin',
if that's what you're askin'.Copy !req
236. Shit.Copy !req
237. Wind's changed.Copy !req
238. Oh. Good riddance.Copy !req
239. Oh, don't be so darn foolish.
It's the calm afore the storm, Winslow.Copy !req
240. She were a gentle westerly wind
you're cursin'.Copy !req
241. Only feels roughly 'cause you don't know
nothin' about nothin',Copy !req
242. and there ain't no trees on this here rock
like your Hudson Bay bush.Copy !req
243. Nor'Easterly wind'll come soonCopy !req
244. a-blowin' like Gabriel's horn.Copy !req
245. Best board up them signal house winders.Copy !req
246. - Aye, sir.
- 'Twill keep steadyCopy !req
247. afore the tender comes in the morn,
I 'spect,Copy !req
248. but there's dirty weather knockin' about.Copy !req
249. Somethin' stirring in ye?Copy !req
250. You're gettin' off this rock tomorry,
Winslow.Copy !req
251. Don't start grudgen me now.Copy !req
252. No, sir.Copy !req
253. Keeping secrets, are ye?Copy !req
254. I could just use a hand
with them boards, is all.Copy !req
255. Pull, Winslow!Copy !req
256. Look at 'em.Copy !req
257. Better than fin fishin'.Copy !req
258. Ain't no crime to take a snort now.
A clear night, and our last afore relief.Copy !req
259. I ain't never known an inspector
what wouldn't turn a blind eye.Copy !req
260. And I won't take no for an answer.Copy !req
261. Should pale death and treble dread...Copy !req
262. Ah, hell. To... to relief.Copy !req
263. And how.Copy !req
264. Oh!Copy !req
265. and a pretty lass, she were,
takin' off her bonnet,Copy !req
266. but as I says, I'd broke me leg,
and banged meself all up.Copy !req
267. It was to a nuns' hospital.Copy !req
268. All of them nuns
were Catholics, I tell ye.Copy !req
269. But I never went to Salem since
without hoping that I should see her,Copy !req
270. for beddin' down weren't the same since.Copy !req
271. You feel shame when you lie with a woman?Copy !req
272. I ain't 'shamed of nothing!Copy !req
273. Well, I'll say it...Copy !req
274. I might even miss ye, Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
275. You're fastly a true blue wickieCopy !req
276. in the making, you is.Copy !req
277. Thought one night you was bound to
split me skull in twain,Copy !req
278. but you're a good-un.Copy !req
279. Why, you'll be workin' the lamp
in no time.Copy !req
280. Why haven't I?Copy !req
281. What?Copy !req
282. The light.Copy !req
283. I'm the keeper of this station, lad.Copy !req
284. Some other station, y'can tend the light.Copy !req
285. The manual says...Copy !req
286. - My log is the only book on this rock...
- Since I'm wickie...Copy !req
287. I'm the keeper of the light, lad.
I never let no man touch her...Copy !req
288. Don't concern yourself
with the beacon, lad!Copy !req
289. Mine!Copy !req
290. Have it your way.Copy !req
291. Say, I never...Copy !req
292. I don't... I don't know your name.Copy !req
293. Wake.Copy !req
294. Your Christian name.Copy !req
295. Thomas.Copy !req
296. - Thomas?
- Aye, Thomas Wake.Copy !req
297. Call me Tom.Copy !req
298. Well...Copy !req
299. To my friend Tom.Copy !req
300. And gettin' off this goddamn rock.Copy !req
301. What are y'splittin' your lungs fer?Copy !req
302. You smell o' shit.Copy !req
303. Best swab this mess
afore the tender comes.Copy !req
304. Do as you're told, lad.
The quarters are dire.Copy !req
305. Aye... Aye, sir. Aye.Copy !req
306. They didn't come.Copy !req
307. The damp's got to the provisions!Copy !req
308. What?Copy !req
309. The damp's got to the provisions!Copy !req
310. The damp's got to the foodstuffs.
The salt cod is out.Copy !req
311. - Out?
- Blasted. Gone to rot.Copy !req
312. - Praised be.
- Will you hear me now?Copy !req
313. - Hear what?
- That we best be rationing.Copy !req
314. - Rationing?
- Insubordinate again?Copy !req
315. It's only been one day.Copy !req
316. Devil's tail.Copy !req
317. Look, maybe the tender did come.
We just missed her, is all.Copy !req
318. I can take the dory out.Copy !req
319. Weeks, Winslow. Weeks.Copy !req
320. What?Copy !req
321. What do you mean, what?Copy !req
322. - Weeks?
- Weeks. Aye, weeks.Copy !req
323. We slept in. Dead drunk.Copy !req
324. It's been weeks ago
since we missed her, Winslow.Copy !req
325. And I've been askin' ye
to ration for weeks now, too,Copy !req
326. but you've kept barking at me
like a mad dogCopy !req
327. sayin' you can take the dory out.Copy !req
328. - Now, look here...
- Oh, no. Don't be losing your head now.Copy !req
329. - This ain't funny.
- No, it ain't.Copy !req
330. And I ain't want to be stranded here
with some damn lunatic.Copy !req
331. Stranded?Copy !req
332. That's what I said.Copy !req
333. Why, I thought... I thought you said
relief was coming.Copy !req
334. If we can wait out the storm.Copy !req
335. The tender is coming.Copy !req
336. In '75, Ol' Striker were marooned here
for seven long months, he was.Copy !req
337. The storm died on the mainland,
but here, the waters were too ragefulCopy !req
338. neither to launch nor land.Copy !req
339. You're just tryin' to scare me.Copy !req
340. Look at ye. Pretendin'.Copy !req
341. But ye well know your lot.Copy !req
342. Dig!Copy !req
343. Dig, says I!Copy !req
344. Dig!Copy !req
345. Dig!Copy !req
346. There she lies.Copy !req
347. Rations.Copy !req
348. The worst of us
couldn't fend 'gainst the ship ratsCopy !req
349. what gnawed on the soles of our feet.Copy !req
350. Their legs withered
and turned gangree'nous,Copy !req
351. every shade of the peacock's tail.Copy !req
352. Their gums grew swollen,
the color of bone, then to rot.Copy !req
353. Tarry blood oozed,Copy !req
354. teeth droppin' to the deck
with none to hold on to.Copy !req
355. "Land ho!" hears I,Copy !req
356. but only grass on that island.
So we et upon the grass.Copy !req
357. And 'twas that scurvy
what left me locked ever since.Copy !req
358. I thought you said you'd broke it.Copy !req
359. Aye?Copy !req
360. Your leg.Copy !req
361. Catholic nuns and such like.Copy !req
362. You must've misheard.Copy !req
363. - I told that dumb bastard...
- Yep. Them eaves be gonners.Copy !req
364. "Give me your cant hook," I says to him.Copy !req
365. But... Foreman Winslow,Copy !req
366. that goddamned Canady bastard...Copy !req
367. - Winslow?
- ... always callin' me a dog.Copy !req
368. A filthy dog.Copy !req
369. - I'll show you who's a dog.
- Winslow.Copy !req
370. - What of him?
- Who, Winslow?Copy !req
371. The eaves be fallin'...Copy !req
372. - He's always raggin' on me.
- Ragging?Copy !req
373. Like you. Damn fool nonsense.Copy !req
374. That's the trouble with ye, Winslow.Copy !req
375. Trouble with you is eatin' grass
without no teeth.Copy !req
376. Come now?Copy !req
377. Your sea matey's teeth had fallen out.Copy !req
378. What are ye gettin' at, Winslow?Copy !req
379. Ah. Well, it just seems powerful hardCopy !req
380. to eat grass with no teeth.Copy !req
381. 'Cause goats and sheeps and cows,Copy !req
382. well, now, they all got teeth, don't they?Copy !req
383. Y'know how y'eat grass without your teeth?Copy !req
384. Oblige me.Copy !req
385. Ye rip it out and ye swallow it.Copy !req
386. "You rip it out and you swallow it."Copy !req
387. - Ye rip it out...
- I don't know 'bout that.Copy !req
388. Y'don't?Copy !req
389. I don't.Copy !req
390. What?Copy !req
391. What?Copy !req
392. What?Copy !req
393. What?Copy !req
394. What?Copy !req
395. - What?
- What?Copy !req
396. What?Copy !req
397. - That's what I mean!
- What?Copy !req
398. That's the trouble with you.Copy !req
399. That's the trouble with ye!Copy !req
400. - With you!
- With ye!Copy !req
401. No! No!Copy !req
402. I want a steak!Copy !req
403. I want a goddamned steak!Copy !req
404. I...Copy !req
405. If I had a steak... Oh, boy.Copy !req
406. A... A rare, a bloody steak.Copy !req
407. If I... If I had a steak,Copy !req
408. I would fuck it.Copy !req
409. You don't like me cookin'?Copy !req
410. Ugh, don't be such an old bitch!Copy !req
411. You're drunk!
You don't know what you're talkin'.Copy !req
412. How could I possibly like
the horseshit you fix us for supper?Copy !req
413. You're drunk,
or ye wouldn't be saying that!Copy !req
414. Them tin kitchen shanty cooks
gave us fried doughnuts three times a dayCopy !req
415. - and country ham bigger than your fist.
- You're drunk! You're drunk! You're drunk!Copy !req
416. - I'm drunk? I...
- You heard me!Copy !req
417. - You've been drunk...
- Damn ye!Copy !req
418. Drunk since I first laid eyes on you.Copy !req
419. You're fond of me lobster, ain't ye?Copy !req
420. You're drunker than a Virginy fence.Copy !req
421. I seen it. You're fond of me lobster.Copy !req
422. Say it.Copy !req
423. Say it.Copy !req
424. Say it!Copy !req
425. I don't have to say nothin'.Copy !req
426. Damn ye!Copy !req
427. Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!Copy !req
428. Hark!Copy !req
429. Hark, Triton, Hark!Copy !req
430. Bellow, bid our father, the sea king,Copy !req
431. rise from the depths,
full foul in his fury,Copy !req
432. black waves teeming with salt-foam,Copy !req
433. to smother this young mouth
with pungent slime,Copy !req
434. to choke ye, engorging your organs
till ye turn blue and bloatedCopy !req
435. with bilge and brine
and can scream no more.Copy !req
436. Only when he, crowned in cockle shellsCopy !req
437. with slithering tentacled tail
and steaming beard,Copy !req
438. take up his fell, be-finned arm,Copy !req
439. his coral-tined trident screeches,Copy !req
440. banshee-like in the tempest,Copy !req
441. and plunges right through your gullet,Copy !req
442. bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more,Copy !req
443. but a blasted bloody film now,Copy !req
444. a nothing for the harpies
and the souls of dead sailorsCopy !req
445. to peck and claw and feed upon,Copy !req
446. only to be lapped up and swallowed
by the infinite watersCopy !req
447. of the dread emperor himself,Copy !req
448. forgotten to any man,Copy !req
449. to any time,Copy !req
450. forgotten to any god or devil,
forgotten even to the sea,Copy !req
451. for any stuff or part of Winslow,
even any scantling of your soul,Copy !req
452. is Winslow no more,Copy !req
453. but is now itself the sea.Copy !req
454. All right. Have it your way.Copy !req
455. I like your cooking.Copy !req
456. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
457. Queer way to wear your shoes.Copy !req
458. Just didn't wanna wake you, is all.Copy !req
459. It's a long night.Copy !req
460. And such.Copy !req
461. Hmm. The sun is over the yardarm.Copy !req
462. Best find some winks
afore the day draws farther on.Copy !req
463. Get back to your duties
or I'll give you a real keelhauling.Copy !req
464. You ain't even human no more.Copy !req
465. Workin' apart from folks so long.Copy !req
466. You're only tolerable when you're drunk.Copy !req
467. Get to work, says I.Copy !req
468. To work!Copy !req
469. Dance! Dance, Winslow! Dance!Copy !req
470. Aye.Copy !req
471. Get off me! Get off me!Copy !req
472. - Thomas.
- Aye.Copy !req
473. - It's Thomas.
- Aye.Copy !req
474. No, I'm Thomas.Copy !req
475. I'm Thomas. You're Ephraim.Copy !req
476. I lied.Copy !req
477. Well, I'll be scuppered.Copy !req
478. I'm Thomas. Tommy.Copy !req
479. Tommy? Tommy Winslow.Copy !req
480. No. Tom Howard.Copy !req
481. What's Winslow?Copy !req
482. - It's nothing.
- Nothing?Copy !req
483. Can I trust you?Copy !req
484. Don't be spilling any of your beans to me.Copy !req
485. I ain't interested.Copy !req
486. No. It wasn't that way, is all...
Just, see...Copy !req
487. I see what you're fixin' to do.
You get me all liquored up...Copy !req
488. Your guilty conscience
is ever as tiresome-borin'Copy !req
489. as any a guilty conscience.Copy !req
490. - Who...
- Worse. Worse.Copy !req
491. It was... it was a drive, see.Copy !req
492. It was a log drive,
and he... he's raggin' on me.Copy !req
493. No, I see what you're doing.Copy !req
494. Nothing.Copy !req
495. Look, Tom, don't be working
to twist words out of my head.Copy !req
496. I ain't.Copy !req
497. Um, I can't... I can't do it. I can't...Copy !req
498. Shut up your own rag box.Copy !req
499. I trust... I trust... I trust you.Copy !req
500. No.Copy !req
501. I... I trust you, Tom.Copy !req
502. You trust me?Copy !req
503. No, I don't trust you at all.Copy !req
504. And I had 'im handy and helpless.Copy !req
505. Alone.Copy !req
506. Too far downstream.Copy !req
507. And I... I wanted to do 'im in.
I admit I did.Copy !req
508. Seein' the back of his head.Copy !req
509. One swipe of the cant hook'd be all.Copy !req
510. Uh... It was...Copy !req
511. I... I didn't...Copy !req
512. I didn't... I did not.Copy !req
513. The day was long as hell on that drive.Copy !req
514. I was lead-tired. I admit it.Copy !req
515. But I saw him slippin', not me.Copy !req
516. We saw the jam comin'.Copy !req
517. I stood and he slipped.Copy !req
518. He shouted up.
And I... I just stood there.Copy !req
519. "Tom, you dog!"Copy !req
520. I just stood there, is all. Just...Copy !req
521. Just stood and watched 'im
get swallowed by them logs.Copy !req
522. And all I could think
when he was done was,Copy !req
523. "I... I could use me a smoke."Copy !req
524. That's it.Copy !req
525. So, I packed up his kit and fixin's,
as if they was my own and...Copy !req
526. Ephraim Winslow, well, now,
he got a spiffy clean slate.Copy !req
527. And Thomas Howard, well, he don't.Copy !req
528. No prospects.Copy !req
529. How else am I gonna find respectable work?Copy !req
530. Tom!Copy !req
531. Tom!Copy !req
532. Why'd y'spill your beans, Tommy?Copy !req
533. Why'd y'spill your beans?Copy !req
534. Why'd y'spill your beans?Copy !req
535. Don't leave me!Copy !req
536. You crazy son of a bitch!
You smashed up the lifeboat!Copy !req
537. You're abandoning your post!Copy !req
538. What're you gonna do?
Send for the lighthouse establishment?Copy !req
539. Certain, says I. I'll report ye,
I'll bring the inspector up.Copy !req
540. I'll report you! I know what you done.Copy !req
541. Who's reportin' who?
Ephraim Winslow? Or Thomas Howard?Copy !req
542. I know what you done.Copy !req
543. You killed your second.Copy !req
544. Your one-eyed junior man.Copy !req
545. I found him. In the lobster pot.Copy !req
546. Said he went mad?Copy !req
547. You made him mad with that charm!Copy !req
548. That scrimshaw trinket.Copy !req
549. But I broke it, see. See?Copy !req
550. Now I'm free. I'm free from your designs!Copy !req
551. And I got it all figured out,Copy !req
552. 'cept what's the secret mischief
your keepin' up there!Copy !req
553. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Tommy.Copy !req
554. Last night you made a confession
'twould make a saint swear.Copy !req
555. I don't have nothin' to confess,Copy !req
556. but you, spillin' your beans,
look what it's done to ye.Copy !req
557. It's made ye mad.Copy !req
558. And I knew ye was mad
when y'smashed up that lifeboat just now,Copy !req
559. a-chasing me with an ax,
tryin' to kill Ol' Tom.Copy !req
560. Don't ye trust me, Tommy?Copy !req
561. Better hand me
the dinner knife ye pocketed.Copy !req
562. Y'ain't safe with it.Copy !req
563. That's a good lad.Copy !req
564. Them's government property.Copy !req
565. Deducted from your pay.Copy !req
566. Look at your shiverin'.Copy !req
567. You're so mad, y'know not up from down.Copy !req
568. How long have we been on this rock?Copy !req
569. Five weeks?Copy !req
570. Two days?Copy !req
571. Where are we?Copy !req
572. Help me to recollect,
who are you again, Tommy?Copy !req
573. I'm probably
a figment of your imagination.Copy !req
574. This rock is a figment
of your imagination too.Copy !req
575. You're probably wand'rin' through a grove
of tag alders up north in Canady,Copy !req
576. like a frostbitten maniac,
talkin' to yourself,Copy !req
577. knee-deep in snow.Copy !req
578. I could use me a smoke.Copy !req
579. We're outta drink.Copy !req
580. Ooh!Copy !req
581. Monkey pump!Copy !req
582. This place is a sty.Copy !req
583. Mornin' to you too.Copy !req
584. I wish I could go for a walk.Copy !req
585. Be my guest. You'll get drowned.Copy !req
586. Fiery pit.Copy !req
587. Ain't there no justice left in this world?Copy !req
588. Thankee.Copy !req
589. What's wrong with your hand?Copy !req
590. The other one.Copy !req
591. Ye hear o' tetanus?Copy !req
592. - Tet-a-nus?
- Hmm. Yeah.Copy !req
593. It started as a sliver of a cut, is all...Copy !req
594. I said I heard of it.Copy !req
595. from the forestaysail
when we shoved off...Copy !req
596. - Don't you ever shut up?
- ... but come a fortnight,Copy !req
597. - the bosun was a-shakin'.
- Stop.Copy !req
598. His jaw locked tighter than an anchor...Copy !req
599. Shut your gum, goddamn it!
I can't hear no more!Copy !req
600. What were it ye accused me of?Copy !req
601. Y'already told me y'had me figgerd.Copy !req
602. I'm tired of your damned-fool yarns
and your Cap'n Ahab horseshit.Copy !req
603. You sound like a goddamned parody.Copy !req
604. Givin' and nagging orders
like a spinster schoolmarm,Copy !req
605. and all the while turning this stationCopy !req
606. - to the Devil's own rum hole.
- You're makin' a fool of yourself.Copy !req
607. Well, it's all horseshit...Copy !req
608. your leg, and your sea life, all of it!Copy !req
609. And if I hear one more word of horseshit
coming out of your foul, rotten-toothed,Copy !req
610. - smelly old mouth...
- Ye... Damn ye...Copy !req
611. Shut up your gum, goddamn it!
I ain't finished yet!Copy !req
612. You think
you're so goddamned high and mightyCopy !req
613. just 'cause
you're a goddamned lighthouse keeper?Copy !req
614. Well, you ain't a captain of no ship
and you never was!Copy !req
615. You ain't no general, you ain't no copper,Copy !req
616. you ain't the president,
and you ain't my father!Copy !req
617. And I'm sick of you actin' like you is!Copy !req
618. I'm sick of your laughing, your snoring,
and your goddamned farts.Copy !req
619. Your goddamned...Copy !req
620. Goddamn your farts!Copy !req
621. You smell like piss,
you smell like jism,Copy !req
622. like rotten dick, like curdled foreskin,Copy !req
623. like hot onions fucked
a farmyard shit house.Copy !req
624. And I'm sick of your smell.
I'm sick of it!Copy !req
625. I'm sick of it, you goddamned drunk.Copy !req
626. You goddamned no-account,
son-of-a-bitch-bastard liar!Copy !req
627. That's what you are!Copy !req
628. You're a goddamned drunken,
horse-shitting, short, shit liar.Copy !req
629. A liar!Copy !req
630. Ye have a way with words, Tommy.Copy !req
631. Damn you!Copy !req
632. You're relieved of your duties.Copy !req
633. No need to tell me, old-timer.Copy !req
634. "Assistant slept late."Copy !req
635. "Work below standard."Copy !req
636. "Attitude hostile."Copy !req
637. "Assistant missing."Copy !req
638. "Given to habitual self-abuse
in the supply shed."Copy !req
639. "Drunk on duty!"Copy !req
640. "Assault!"Copy !req
641. "Theft!"Copy !req
642. "Recommend severance without pay."Copy !req
643. Severance without pay?Copy !req
644. Are you trying to ruin me?Copy !req
645. I'm a hard worker.Copy !req
646. I am. I work as hard as any man.Copy !req
647. - Ye lie, Thomas.
- Stop it!Copy !req
648. Ye lie to yourself,
but y'ain't have the sauce to see it.Copy !req
649. Please...Copy !req
650. Just let me into the light, old man.Copy !req
651. I've learned so much from you.
Just let me show you. Another chance.Copy !req
652. Forgive and forget, I says.Copy !req
653. Just let me into that lantern, is all.Copy !req
654. Don't make me beg... or I'll beg.Copy !req
655. I'll beg if that's what you want.
I'll beg.Copy !req
656. Please.Copy !req
657. Please. Please! Please!Copy !req
658. Stand down.Copy !req
659. You selfish bastard!
Keepin' it all to yourself.Copy !req
660. You left your old lady,
your children, for what? For what?Copy !req
661. Look at ye, handsome lad,
with eyes bright as a lady.Copy !req
662. Come to this rock playin' the tough.Copy !req
663. Ye make me laugh with your false grum.Copy !req
664. Ye pretended to some mystery
in your quietudes,Copy !req
665. but there ain't no mystery.Copy !req
666. You're an open book. A picture, says I.Copy !req
667. A painted actress
screaming in the footlights,Copy !req
668. a bitch what wants to be coveted
for nothin' but being born,Copy !req
669. cryin' 'bout the silver spoon
what should've been yours.Copy !req
670. Now look at ye cryin'.Copy !req
671. Boo. Boo.Copy !req
672. What you gonna do?Copy !req
673. Will ye kill me? Will ye?Copy !req
674. Will y'kill me like y'done that gull?Copy !req
675. - I didn't...
- Liar! Y'murdering dog!Copy !req
676. 'Twas ye what changed the wind on us.
'Twas ye what damned us, dog. 'Twas ye!Copy !req
677. Will y'do what y'wish
y'done to Ol' Winslow?Copy !req
678. Will ye best me then?
For Winslow were right.Copy !req
679. Thomas, you're a dog. A filthy dog! A dog!Copy !req
680. Git down!Copy !req
681. Let go of me!Copy !req
682. You're killing me!Copy !req
683. Bark.Copy !req
684. Bark, boy.Copy !req
685. Bark, laddie.Copy !req
686. Bark.Copy !req
687. Woof.Copy !req
688. Ain't ye never been to sea before?Copy !req
689. Bark, I says. Bark!Copy !req
690. Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
691. Bark, laddie!Copy !req
692. Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
693. - Now, there's a good boy.
- Ruff!Copy !req
694. - There's a good dog.
- Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
695. Ruff!Copy !req
696. Now roll over.Copy !req
697. Come on.Copy !req
698. Come on.Copy !req
699. Git!Copy !req
700. Come on.Copy !req
701. Get up here.Copy !req
702. Good boy. Good boy.Copy !req
703. Now you get in there, where you belong.Copy !req
704. You do as I say, dog.Copy !req
705. There's my good lad.Copy !req
706. Ye wish to see
what's in the lantern?Copy !req
707. So did me last assistant.Copy !req
708. Shut up, old dog!Copy !req
709. Polish your brasswork.Copy !req
710. O what Protean forms swim up
from men's minds,Copy !req
711. and melt in hot Promethean plunder,Copy !req
712. scorching eyes,
with divine shames and horror...Copy !req
713. And casting them down to Davy Jones.Copy !req
714. The others, still blind,Copy !req
715. yet in it seeCopy !req
716. all the divine gracesCopy !req
717. and to Fiddler's Green sent,Copy !req
718. where no man is suffered to want or toil,
but is...Copy !req
719. ancient...Copy !req
720. mutable and unchanging...Copy !req
721. as the she who girdles 'round the globe.Copy !req
722. Them's truth.Copy !req
723. You'll be punished.Copy !req
724. The light belongs to me!Copy !req
725. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
726. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.Copy !req