Thursday, November 14, 2013

THE REALITIES OF AGE

"All round and round does the world lie as in a sharpshooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age."

—page 311, Pierre, or the Ambiguities (the Kraken Edition) by Herman Melville.

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(Happy 162nd birthday to the publication of the American edition of Melville's Moby-Dick, or, the Whale.)

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