Word: cancan
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...against the sea. "You must either give in or break away. In my 20-odd years at sea I have been "disarmed and stripped naked by her. ... It eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers him in his great coat...