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His tough, sinuous, spidery arms, five fathoms long, wavered visibly in the blue transparent gulf, Und schaudernd dacht ich's da kroch's heran, Regte hundert Gelenke zugleich, Will schnappen nach mir. A harpoon was driven into the leathery, pulpy body of the monster, but with no other effect than the sudden snapping of the inch line like thread.
Could I have hazarded such a Germanism as the use of the word afterworld for posterity, "Es spreche Welt und Nachwelt meinen Namen" might have been rendered with more literal fidelity: Let world and afterworld speak out my name, etc. I have not ventured to affront the fastidious delicacy of our age with a literal translation of this line, werth Die Eingeweide schaudernd aufzuregen.
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