Flying Dutchman Quotes

“The Bane

...where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest...”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep”
― Albert Pinkham Ryder

“Stayed on, and became the Cymri. What if we're all Jews, you see? all scattered like seeds? still flying outward from the primal fist so long ago. Man, I believe that.'

'Of course you do, Gwenhidwy.' ¶ 'Aren't we then? What about you?' ¶ 'I don't know. I don't feel Jewish today.' ¶ 'I meant flying outward?' He means alone and forever separate: Pointsman knows what he means.

”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow