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“Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“J. Malachi tried to count sheep, feeling that this was a practice which should be revived in the modern era, but he got bored after about seventy. This is what I get for being a deracinated postmodern, he thought. I've lost touch with the agricultural roots of culture.”
― Amends
― Amends
“He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.”
― Amends
― Amends
“She kissed him then, with the same mixture of wonder and irony with which she kissed the cross in church. She didn't always understand that, either.”
― Amends
― Amends
“Nobody can make up for what they did. That isn't how it works. You did something better than that: You got to a place where even the terrible things you did became a . . . a place for repentance, and for someone to forgive you. That is much better than just getting back to the life before. I mean life before this happened just led to the things that happened. This way, the worst things you did became grace.”
― Amends
― Amends
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