More things in heaven and earth...
"Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot."
I need to be keeping notes while I'm reading this... I did not expect to enjoy myself while reading this book and I did not expect to find my philosophy contained therein... I've been quoting this bit all around the internet and I could quote most of the chapter if I bothered to find it. What I'm wondering now is why I've waited so long to read it in the first place. This is the problem with how literature is taught in our schools - people aren't told how great the Classics really are, just that they are "high" and "lofty" and not that they are clever and defiant and brilliantly phrased...
I have a whole essay of such thoughts, I'll have to type up at some point and pound it into some sort of coherency...
I need to be keeping notes while I'm reading this... I did not expect to enjoy myself while reading this book and I did not expect to find my philosophy contained therein... I've been quoting this bit all around the internet and I could quote most of the chapter if I bothered to find it. What I'm wondering now is why I've waited so long to read it in the first place. This is the problem with how literature is taught in our schools - people aren't told how great the Classics really are, just that they are "high" and "lofty" and not that they are clever and defiant and brilliantly phrased...
I have a whole essay of such thoughts, I'll have to type up at some point and pound it into some sort of coherency...