Popular music, finally, is contemplative art—a surprising claim, perhaps, given its association with dance and its divergence from danceless art music.

Then Lieutenant Pullman didn't express uncertainties about any aspect of his primary responsibility or of his other duties onboard the ship? / No. If anything, he acted like he was bored by instruction and training. As if he already knew everything. You know the type.

As far as food, Courville had expected to have his pick of barbecue and beef jerky […]

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