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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by jrm4 on Sunday September 08, 2024 @01:28PM (#41481717)
No mention yet of "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again?" by David Foster Wallace?

Okay, so this. Read it if you haven't. Probably the best essay on a generally "unheavy" topic I've ever read, and so iconic that "Cruise Essay" is dang near becoming its own genre, e.g. Gary Shteyngart's "A Meatball At Sea."

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by water-data-dude on Sunday September 08, 2024 @01:39PM (#41481807)
Behold, I have found the source! Original title was “Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise” but then it was given a new title when it was included in the short story collection “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...

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