Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), an albatross starts to follow the ship. Being followed by the large sea bird was seen as a sign of good luck. Then some idiot sailor shot the bird with his crossbow and everyone got mad at him because...
The debt albatross
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