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A spirit of gloom seemed to rise from the shadowed declivity, from the silence of the mournful wood and the damp darkness of the leaf-hidden earth.
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I found myself in a loneliness indescribable and terrible.
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Humanity was not so much absent as gone, and a feeling of doom and death was in the motionless air, which lay like a weight upon leaf and flower.
— Jul 14, 2026 09:18AM
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I found myself in a loneliness indescribable and terrible.
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Humanity was not so much absent as gone, and a feeling of doom and death was in the motionless air, which lay like a weight upon leaf and flower.
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Nick Irving
is on page 92 of 138
The adventures of Porter here were as strange and romantic as those of any of the hundreds of the gypsies of the sea who sailed this tropical and spilled the blood of a people unused to their ways and ignorant of their inventions and weapons of power.
— Jul 14, 2026 08:45AM
Nick Irving
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“Someday the priest will be alone here without a flock.”
— Jul 01, 2026 01:16PM
Nick Irving
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Our tack was toward the eastern distance, and no glimpse of land or cloud made us aught but solitary travelers in illimitable space. The sun was beneath the deep, but in the hush of the pale light one felt the awe of its coming.
— May 27, 2026 12:34PM
Nick Irving
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They come to the islands to stay until they die, and death means a crown the brighter for martyrdom.
— May 19, 2026 12:53PM
Nick Irving
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“Aue te hanahana, aqua ho’i te kaikai.” - “He who will not labor, neither shall he eat.”
— Apr 29, 2026 07:31AM
Nick Irving
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Yet generals send ten thousand men to certain and agonized death to gain a point toward a goal; that is the custom of generals, by which they gain honor among their people.
— Apr 22, 2026 12:36PM
Nick Irving
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Yet why cavil at the vehicle by which one arrives at Nirvana?
— Apr 21, 2026 12:14PM
Nick Irving
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His ghoulish laughter rose in the dark stillness of the jungle, and the hair stirred on my scalp.
— Apr 20, 2026 11:29AM
Nick Irving
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Freedom is the one purpose, wisely aimed at or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings, and sufferings, in this earth.
— Mar 17, 2026 05:26PM