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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 211: An aside.
Description: 3AN ASIDE. From the time I became a Tar, I think I knew, without understanding it, that from a Tar’s point of view the real reason for being a Tar was not to perform the services to the school that the Tars were supposed to perform, not to provide the model of comportment and achievement that the Tars were supposed to provide, not to learn the ways of seafaring men, but to gain a position in a hierarchy, a position above one’s fellows. I say that I knew this from the start because I can reca...