THE DEEP
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About five or six years ago there was a book published called The Death Ship by B. Traven. There have been other books mirroring life of seamen. Delilah, current success, belongs in this school. The Deep is another story of a sailor, a Danish youth, who at no time in a checkered career arouses ones sympathy or affection or admiration. He is an obnoxious small boy, a dullish youth, a sluggard, a self-centered human being, who repeatedly fails to get along either with his superiors, or his inferiors. He tells his own story, with no apologies, in an oddly oblique fashion. And through this story you get a fairly vivid and accurate idea of the procedure by which able seamen and junior officers are created. The book is introspective, up to a certain point -- a good case study of the man who tells the tale. His life was not designed for school -- girl perusal. A limited -- and chiefly male-market.