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Deadeye Dick.

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8i3'.54[F] PS3572.05

ISBN 0-224-02945-2

Printed in Great Britain by R. J. Acford Ltd, Chichester, Sussex



For Jill


PREFACE
'Deadeye Dick,' like 'Barnacle Bill,' is a nickname for a sailor. A deadeye is a rounded wooden block,
usually bound with rope or iron, and pierced with holes. The holes receive a multiplicity of lines, usually
shrouds or stays, on an old-fashioned sailing ship. But in the American Middle West of my youth,
'Deadeye Dick' was an honorific often accorded to a person who was a virtuoso with firearms.

So it is a sort of lungfish of a nickname. It was born in the ocean, but it adapted to life ashore.

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There are several recipes in this book, which are intended as musical interludes for the salivary glands.
They have been inspired by James Beard's American Cookery, Marcella Kazan's The Classic Italian Cook
Book, and Bea Sandler's The African Cookbook. I have tinkered with the originals, however тАФ so no one
should use this novel for a cookbook. Any serious cook should have the reliable originals in his or her
library.

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There is a real hotel in this book, the Grand Hotel Oloffson in Port au Prince, Haiti. I love it, and so

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would almost anybody else. My dear wife Jill Krementz and I have stayed there in the so-called 'James
Jones Cottage', which was built as an operating room when the hotel was headquarters for a brigade of
United States Marines, who occupied Haiti, in order to protect American financial interests there, from
1915 until 1934.

The exterior of that austere wooden box has subsequently been decorated with fanciful, jigsaw