Pygmania

Here are some Lord Jim quotes that jumped off the page at me. Already there are MANY such passages - so consider the below merely e pluribus quattor. He made many voyages. He knew the magic monotony of existence between sky and water: he had to bear the criticism of men, the exactions of the sea, and the prosaic severity of the daily task that gives bread - but whose reward is in the perfect love of the work. This reward eluded him. [16] But now and again an uncontrollable rush of anguish would grip him bodily, make him gasp and writhe under the blankets, and then the unintelligent brutality of an existence liable to the agony of such sensations filled him with a despairing desire to escape at any cost. Then fine weather returned, and he thought no more of it. [18] [The Patna ] was owned by a Chinaman, chartered by an Arab, and commanded by a sort of renegade New South Wales German, very anxious to curse publicly his native country, but who, apparently on the strength of Bism...