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Weekly Contest #288
When the seas dried up, the sailor could no longer sail. There, in the middle of the barren ocean, he waited. How long had it been since he was landlocked? He did not remember. What became of his crew? Of his captain? He did not know. In the vastemptiness of salt and sand the lonely sailor had no course of action. In the beginning, if there was such a time, he kept to his chores. What else was there to do? Nights no longer came and went; the days turned into a continuous stream of time. The wind never blew. Rain never poured. The only consta...
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