How the Monkeys Learned Hamlet

A conservators were studying the cannon from the wreckage of the queen anne's revenge, a ship used by the pirate blackbeard. They found that there were little bits of paper on it, sealed up somehow. After analyzing them for a long time and trying to fit them together, they figured out that it was from an eighteenth century book called a voyage to the south sea,. written by edward cook. I love the idea that they had a book about just being out on the ocean on this, on this boat that's out on the oceareally. Nowawhat i want to read more about is this awful life that i'm living right now.

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