“Dolly-girl, I’d like to head over to You-gal for a quick gape at something.”“It’s pronounced Y’all, Jack, like Dixie Devereaux says it. What’s up over there?”
“Well, in the summer of 1956, Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart, was released. I went to see it with Bill and Pete, my friends. We spent the rest of the summer either pretending we were Cleveland Indians on our way to the World Series or the crew of the Pequod. We weren’t either, of course, but it was fun. So I want to go to Youghal because that’s where the scenes on shore were filmed.”
“Well, what lad wouldn’t, Jack? That’s sweet!”
“And it inspired my art work in the fall of ‘56...”
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