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Jack Kerouac

The Old Man and the Sea,

Jaimal Yogis • Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

More than any other single impression in those final hours, all the men were struck, almost to the point of horror, by the way the ship behaved like a giant beast in its death agonies.

Alfred Lansing • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

A common mistake is not to be Ishmael but Captain Ahab. Ahab—the doomed skipper of the Pequod, the whaling ship whose crew Ishmael joined—was singularly consumed with finding and killing Moby Dick, the great white whale. The days leading up to Ahab’s fateful encounter with the great whale were a fever dream singularly focused on the object of his o... See more

Arthur Brooks • Why You Might Need an Adventure

"The mother deserves it," said the lady, inflexibly—"and the child—Reverend sir, what are the words of the Bible?" "'The sins of the father shall be visited upon the children to the third generation,'" said Mr. Falsgrave, with some slight reluctance in his tones.

Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities

melody—all this had bewitched him, and enchanted him, till he had sat motionless and bending over, as a tree-transformed and mystery-laden visitant, caught and fast bound in some necromancer's garden.