... . The Jolly Roger is often associated with outrageous adventure in the high seas, romantacised in tales of piracy spun in order to enchant and escape to with a famous example being Treasure Island. Although initially at that point in time, Tom was following a watered-down version of that ideal by aspiring to be a merchant marine, his present self seems to have chosen that ... ...

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