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Fish (and crab, and eel, and . . . ) kill

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This is sickening, and it’s also puzzling. Apparently some 1600-2000 tons of molasses is shipped from Honolulu to Oakland every week. A pipeline broke under the harbor and spilled 233,000 gallons into the water. The stuff is so viscous it sank immediately to the bottom and sucked all the oxygen out of the water, resulting …

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The character’s voice

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I’m reading Robert Goldsborough’s “prequel” to the Nero Wolfe books, “Archie Meets Nero Wolfe”. It’s okay. Archie’s language is much more refined in this than it was in the early books Stout wrote. He was a true roughneck in “Fer de Lance,” “The League of Frightened Men,” “The Rubber Band,” “The Red Box,” and “Too …

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