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apply.
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to create a mysterious mood
"Off there to the right - somewhere - is a large island,"
said Whitney, "It's rather a mystery-
"What island is it?" Rainsford asked.
"The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island," Whitney
replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a
curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some
superstition-"
"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through
the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its
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thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
"You've good eyes," said Whitney, with a laugh, "and I've
seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush
at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles
or so through a moonless Caribbean night."
-- "The Most Dangerous Game,"
Richard Connell
to show the location
to reveal that Rainsford is a hunter
to explain what Whitney looks like
to show the time of day
Intro
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