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This is the protest of an unknown sailor who was deprived of passport and citizenship: “The song of the real and genuine hero of the sea has never yet been sung,”says the young hero Gerald Gales; and so he sings it. He sings it in
the abrupt slang of the self educated worker, in the bitter but
sardonic language of life...Traven regards national and international
bureaucracy as the archenemy of individual freedom.
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