Between Sky and Water / Joseph Conrad
He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread — but whose only reward is in the perfect love of the work. This reward eluded him. Yet he […]
The ignorance of humanity!/ Virginia Woolf
The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization—let me just count over a few things lost in one lifetime, beginning, for that seems always the most mysterious of losses—what the cat would gnaw, what rat would nibble—three pale […]
