A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life by Frederick Busch

A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life by Frederick Busch

Author:Frederick Busch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312246082
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-04-01T00:00:00+00:00


And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, and shall he escape? His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep’s ear! And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air of the deck he would seek to recover his strength. Ah, God! What trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.



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