Soccer in the City of Angels Part V: The Handsome Sailor

Terrance Stamp, as Billy BuddIn the opening pages of Billy Budd, Herman Melville comments on the unique charm of a type of man he called the "Handsome Sailor":

A superb figure, tossed up as by the horns of Taurus against the thunderous sky, cheerily hallooing to the strenuous file along the spar.

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