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“…his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold…”

Every Trump speech.

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

Interesting how forms of loneliness and companionship are a not-insignificant theme so far.

“You will smile at my allusion [to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]; but I will disclose a secret. I have often attributed my attachment to, my passionate enthusiasm for, the dangerous mysteries of the ocean, to that production of the most imaginative of modern poets.”