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where_away2016-08-29 08:20 pm
dorinda) wrote in where_away2016-08-29 08:20 pm
"No penetration, no sodomy"
In chapter one, Jack and Stephen:
And privately to Stephen he said, 'I repeated your "No penetration, no sodomy", which floored one and all; though I must say that most of them were glad to be floored. I persuaded the others to find no more than gross indecency.'
'And is being towed ashore on a grating the set penalty for gross indecency?'
'No. We call it the use and custom of the sea: that is the way it has always been.'
And privately to Stephen he said, 'I repeated your "No penetration, no sodomy", which floored one and all; though I must say that most of them were glad to be floored. I persuaded the others to find no more than gross indecency.'
'And is being towed ashore on a grating the set penalty for gross indecency?'
'No. We call it the use and custom of the sea: that is the way it has always been.'