Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days.
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