Healed of my hurt, I laud the inhuman Sea...

[thestorygirl]

This is great stuff.

"Know ye, now, Bulkington?  Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

"But as in landlessness alone

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[marissa_leigh]

*swoons in concert and revives to see that Moby Dick has been inching its way up to the top of the reading stack on the nightstand*

Hmm. That and Wives and Daughters this month. I think I can manage it. Only The Moonstone has kept getting pushed back ever since spring! *sigh* So many books . . .

[soredtome]

Perhaps I should try reading Melville when not forced to. I imagine it works wonders.