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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 64 words
Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye. Rather Cape Tormentoso, as called of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls and these fish, seemed condemned to swim on everlastingly without any haven in store, or beat that black air without any horizon.
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