• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Robinson Crusoe was one of my favorites as a kid. Tried rereading that recently and the whole reason he was ever on a ship that could get wrecked in the first place was he wanted to buy slaves.

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      4 days ago

      I haven’t read it since high school but Defoe prose was absolute tedium for me back then.