Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this…
A Stove Boat (Herman Melville, 'Moby Dick')
2010-10-28
It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me…