Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all circumnavigation conduct? In pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing us such over […]
«As in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God – so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety. » Herman Melville, Moby Dick