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Thread #3021 Message #411591
Posted By: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
05-Mar-01 - 08:06 PM
Thread Name: Heave Up Songs
Subject: RE: Heave Up Songs
For those with a scholarly interest in "heaving Up" as in seasickness, you should check out HEAVE HO! – MY LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF SEASICKNESS by Charles Mazel. What a history! It's published by McGraw-Hill. To quote from the back cover:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer silently The derision of those who suffer not, Or to lose lunch bravely into a sea of troubles And by purging end them? To die, to hurl, No more – and thereby end The bellyache and the thousand natural revulsions That seagoing flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To puke: perchance to hurl: ay, there goes the grub.