patricky

The summation of my life to this point, as discovered today by my children.


Addendum: Melville is a saucy, naughty schoolboy.

"Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy--start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool--cucumbers is the word--easy, easy--only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys--that's all. Start her!"