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The ferryman jokes that the rubber has returned to its origins.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
What’s more, the ferrymen would take advantage of passengers.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Perhaps, like the poet A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love, Stoppard — gone now at 88, the cause unspecified — stands at this moment on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for the old ferryman Charon.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
When dead animals start showing up around town, a superstitious ferryman claims he’s seen the Mansfield girls shapeshift into feral hounds.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
What’s more, the ferrymen would take advantage of passengers.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Perhaps, like the poet A. E. Housman in The Invention of Love, Stoppard — gone now at 88, the cause unspecified — stands at this moment on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for the old ferryman Charon.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
When dead animals start showing up around town, a superstitious ferryman claims he’s seen the Mansfield girls shapeshift into feral hounds.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 22 May 2025
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“Ferryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ferryman. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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