SAILtheCHANNELdotCOM

Download Mid-Atlantic

I find the sound of the boat making way at sea comforting. Michael sent me the following quote as an accompaniment.

(To quote Ishmael) “…having little or no money in my
purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore,
I thought I would sail about a little and see the
watery part of the world. It is a way I have of
driving off the spleen, and regulating the
circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about
the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in
my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing
before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of
every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos
get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a
strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately
stepping into the street, and methodically knocking
people’s hats off - then, I account it high time to
get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for
pistol and ball.”

From “Moby Dick, or, the whale” by Herman Melville

[print_link]