M & D Group Read continued

[Mark Kohut]

p.128

Here in James's Town, The Island---does anyone else refer
to the new world this way ever?---

is 1) so unfavorable. So far from albacore, all landlocked and unrich?
    2) animated from the earth by the Company!
    3) A SLUMBERING CREATURE....reminds me of what used to be
said about China or another growing non-Western country. Sleeping Giant.
        Here, America is embryonic, set to awaken?
     4) "Life so precarious....to live, we must be up at all hours"...
        The wildness of not-yet-civilized life?...

Who says this?
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