For dialogue inspiration, the Eggers brothers read the works of Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more, consulting 19th century slang and nautical dictionaries for concise jargon. Willem Dafoe's character is prone to articulate soliloquies in the style of William Shakespeare and Milton. For naturalistic dialogue, the Eggers brothers turned to the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, a Maine-based poet and novelist best known for her works set on the Eastern seaboard, including 'Tales of New England' and 'Strangers and Wayfarers', both published in 1890. As research for her own work, Jewett interviewed old sailors and farmers, often writing in their dialect.

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