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François Raynal was a very pious man, having experienced a revelation his first night at sea, on December 23, 1844, at the age of just fourteen years and five months. As the land on the horizon disappeared, and “the limitless sea surrounded me; the celestial vault was for the first time displayed before my eyes in all its vastness; I was plunged everywhere into the Infinite.”
Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
#ALSO. I am still on my age of sail bullshit#consider once more the universal cannibalism of the sea#hold up I gotta find the matching moby dick quote to this one#reading log
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