
UNBOUND W/ NO HANDS
'[Washing ashore 8 (?) days later,] there was a volume of Keats in his breast pocket, but the volume of Aeschylus was in his hand, and with the finger clasped in its pages... all parts of the body not protected by clothes were torn off by dogfish and other sea-vermin, even to their scalps; the hands were torn off at the wrists. That disposes of...' (from Smith and Trelawney's accounts, respectively)
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