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Mercurial Seas

Mercurial Seas   Words pulled from Moby Dick Chapters 107-118   Uncivilized and far-distant seas, an air-freighted demijohn. dead black in [its] rolling Rings of Eternity, gently rocking invisible flood-tide beyond all visible horizons, their own mild, uncontinented [it], interflow with blue heavens… so form the white breakers of the milky way. Gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams… tossing like slumberers in their beds, ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness. Inhale [its] new found salt breath, immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored, all-receptive… alluringly spread forth… the hearts of infinite Pacifics, like hearth-stone cats they purr. Tranquil beauty and brilliance of [it’s] skin, conceals a remorseless fang, mild blue hill-sides, a storm for every calm, golden, loveliness unfathomable, lovely sunset [it]. Candid and impartial, [its] heart unverdured, eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest. [Its] waves for pall-bearers, immeasurable burning-glass, the hand that holds thee no longer will guide my earthly way by thee… by log and by line; these shall conduct me, and show me my place on the sea.