“…however baby man may brag of his science and skill…” (Moby-Dick)
But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific… Continue reading “…however baby man may brag of his science and skill…” (Moby-Dick)