In the wee hours before the test, he drank coffee, rolled cigarettes, and read Baudelaire. The test itself he named "Trinity", after one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to

Young Sal of Nantucket - a good boy, a sweet boy. Orphaned young, and raised by a rum-drunk, salt-tongued, near-blind lobster trap named Jenny, who gummed corn-cob pipes, muttered "Jack Damn Tar!" for no observable reason, and fed him on shanties and legends of the brine more than