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• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) "Moby Dick" (1851)...
• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath i
  and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang....
• Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth
  hat all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea...
• Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosse
  speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee....
• The Universe is queer.
• The Universe is the Practical Joke of the General at the Expense of the Particular.
  -- Aleister Crowley...
• And Moby Dick for king!
• Moby Dick is NOT a social disease!
• A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. -- Herman Melville