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David Anderson
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“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
― Paradise Lost
“He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through”
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“I am at home, for I am he. I bore adversities, but in the twentieth year, I am ashore in my own land.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the other head's expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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