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- The fish hit the bow head on, with a noise like a muffled explosion. Quint cast his iron. It struck the fish atop the head, over the right eye, and it held fast. The rope fed slowly overboard as the fish backed off.
- "Perfect!" said Quint. "Got him in the head that time." There were three barrels in the water now, and they skated across the surface. Then they disappeared.
- "God damn!” said Quint. "That's no normal fish that can sound with three irons in him and three barrels to hold him up."
- The boat trembled, seeming to rise up, then dropped back. The barrels popped up, two on one side of the boat, one on the other. Then they submerged again. A few seconds later, they reappeared twenty yards from the boat.
- -Jaws, Chapter 14
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