In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
“Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.”
“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.”