Ar. […]and for the reſt o'th' Fleet (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe, And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote Bound ſadly home for Naples, Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt, And his great perſon periſh.

Unfortunately for Admiral Kurita, this is where the good news ends. The fire started by New Jerseys hit amidships has spread, and there is now a towering inferno' that occupies the middle third of the Japanese battleship.

Everybody know it but nobody wants hear it 'count hearin' don't make nothin' no better. Some things hearin' 'bout make things worse. Ain't like dyin' is some newfanglement nobody ever heard nothin' 'bout afore.

“Vaudeville wouldn’t even eat in the same restaurants or stay in the same hotels as burlesque,” she was saying now. “There really were classes of people. And vaudeville was very proud, extremely proud. In Gypsy, burlesque was all cutified, not the way it really was, down and dirty, men with raw liver and milk bottles masturbating. […]”