I have presented this matter thus quotationally because I am anxious to emphasize Conrad's understanding loyalty to his art...

[Professor Macheo] Payne said. It’s going to soil and spoil the kujichagulia of Juneteenth. ... It’s going to feel like it’s theirs, too.

That's what I was thinking, but then I remembered he'd never been to sea, that I'd only started calling him The Captain because he wore a captain's hat during a game of gin rummy at his grandmother's apartment one time while she was out of town.

See all these sheep over there? All those kids are gonna be racing. […] What's this called again? Mutton busting. Mutton busting?]