Not on this copy. 'The Log from the Sea of Cortez, copyright 1941 by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts'.
[...] Ed's use of words was unorthodox and, until you knew him, somewhat startling. Once, in getting a catologue ready, he wanted to advise the trade that he had plenty of hagfish available. Now the hagfish is a most disgusting animal both in appearance and texture, and some of its habits are nauseating. It is a perfect animal horror. But Ed did not feel this, because the hagfish has certain functions which he found fascinating. In his catologue he wrote, "Available in some quantities, delightful and beautiful hagfish."
[...] He hated women with thin lips. "If the lips are thin - where will there be any fullness?" he would say.
[...] He loved women too much to take any nonsense from the thin-lipped ones. But if a girl with thin lips painted on fuller ones with lipstick, he was satisfied. "Her intentions are correct," he said "There is a psychic fullness, and sometimes that can be very fine."
[...] Not only did Ed love liquor. He went further. He had a deep suspicion of anyone who did not. If a non-drinker shut up and minded his own business and did not make an issue of his failing, Ed could be kind to him. But, alas, a laissez-faire attitude is very uncommon in teetotalers. The moment one began to spread his poison ....
Above typed in, slowly [from the intro, which is a read in itself] ... out of print, i believe, or it was three years ago .... i keep looking for it in used bookstores, along with Graham Greene's The Lawless Roads. |
