conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my
Herman Melville[...] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
Herman Melvillefifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung
Herman Melvillesee how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
Herman MelvilleAll my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
Herman MelvilleTag: madness sanity allegory efficiency modernity ends means modern-age instrumental-rationality
..for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..
Herman Melvilleloitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses
Herman Melvilleget just as nigh the water as they possibly
Herman MelvilleBut the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music. But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence, in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.
Herman MelvilleAdmiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is smoke, must be fire.
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