My latest book is "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville - 546 pages.
Quotes from the book follow:
"Softly, softly, and steadfastly my men. Only pull and keep pulling; nothing more. Crack all your backbones and bite your knives in two - that's all. Take it easy - why don't you take it easy, I say, and burst all your livers and lungs"
Whalemen being "gently" urged on in pursuit of a whale.
Comparing pirates to whalemen: "...in the case of pirates I say, I should like to know whether that profession of theirs has any particular glory about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation indeed; but only at the gallows. And besides when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior attitude. Hence, I conclude that in boasting himself to be high lifted above a whaleman, in that assertion the pirate has no solid basis to stand on"
Saturday, January 06, 2007
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