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“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire surface of the water would be blown bodily away, and any ship that stood in the path of that onslaught shook and staggered as tons of green sea smote her upper deck and raced in a torrent down her whole length. Boats were smashed, funnels were buckled, bridges and deck-houses were crushed out of shape: men disappeared overboard without trace and without a cry, sponged out of life like figures wiped from a blackboard at a single imperious stroke.”
― The Cruel Sea
― The Cruel Sea
“Something else that we should bear in mind has to do with the speed of composition. The few pages of this chapter have taken you a few minute to read; they have taken me, I'm sorry to say, days and days to write.
...
Even assuming equal levels of knowledge about the subject, who probably has the most ideas - you in five minutes of reading or me in five days of stumbling around? All I'm really saying is that we readers sometimes forget how long literary composition can take and how very much lateral thinking can go on in that amount of time.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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Even assuming equal levels of knowledge about the subject, who probably has the most ideas - you in five minutes of reading or me in five days of stumbling around? All I'm really saying is that we readers sometimes forget how long literary composition can take and how very much lateral thinking can go on in that amount of time.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor
“The Atlantic had never been specifically a British ocean; but it was even less a German one, and now was not the time for it to change its nationality.”
― The Cruel Sea
― The Cruel Sea
“Instead, Parliament passed an Act which was, as usual, a legal redundancy, and superbly upholstered with "whereby," "notwithstanding," "heretofore" and other such words so beloved of anyone who ever used a heavy legal textbook to prop open a door on a windy day”
― Ramage & the Guillotine
― Ramage & the Guillotine
“To our wonder there came an immediate reply from the [Mexican] ambassador [to Washington] which said there was no reason why we should not go and that he would see the permits were issued immediately. His letter said just that. There was a little sadness in us when we read it. The ambassador seemed such a good man we felt it a pity that he had no diplomatic future, that he would never get anywhere in the world of international politics. We understood his letter the first time we read it. Clearly, Mr. Castillo Najera is a misfit and a rebel. He not only wrote clearly, but kept his word. The permits came through quickly and in order. And we wish here and now to assure this gentleman that whenever the inevitable punishment for his logic and clarity falls upon him we will gladly help him to get a new start in some other profession.”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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