In sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains. Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter, that to many thousands of our rural boys and young men born along its line, the probationary life of the Grand Canal furnishes the sole transition between quietly reaping in a Christian corn-field, and recklessly ploughing the waters of the most barbaric seas.
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
The Town Ho Story
[props to whoever makes the best Town Ho joke]
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Restless Hearts - Circa 1851
Posted by Kevin Hansen at 12:57 PM
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Dude, my ho comment is in the previous post ... how's that for foreshadowing ?!?!?!
125 years later - did you listen really hard to the inflection of the females at the "climax" of the song (-sorry-) - they were definitely enjoying themselves.
BO
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