Au contraire, I think it makes my point. And I do not think, in the scholarly purlieus of Cambridge UK, that I am in that much danger of inviting a visit from The·Men·In·The·White·Coats any time soon, just for having had the·whale·of·a·time reading a phocaenine-related classic!...

But thanks nevertheless for your kind concern, Phil.

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What measures, meanwhile, I enquire again to terminate this drift, are we to take in the matter of the mariner who has overindulged in the spirituous liquors!