Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D.H. Lawrence

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There’s lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Perhaps the human soul needs excursions, and must not be denied them. But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.