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William Hope Hodgson
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“I am not at sea because I object to bad treatment, poor food, poor wages, and worse prospects. I am not at sea because very early I discovered that it is a comfortless, weariful and thankless life—a life compact of hardness and sordidness such as shore people can scarcely conceive. I am not at sea because I dislike being a pawn with the sea for a board and the shipowners for players.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Is the Mercantile Navy Worth Joining?—Certainly Not.’ 1905. The Grand Magazine, September 1905. Reprinted in The Wandering Soul: Glimpses of a Life: A Compendium of Rare and Unpublished Works. Ed. Jane Frank. Leyburn: …
“Another vast space went by, and the whole enormous flame had sunk to a deep, copper color. Gradually, it darkened, from copper to copper-red, and from this, at times, to a deep, heavy, purplish tint, with, in it, a strange loom of blood. Although the light was decreasing, I could perceive no diminishment in the apparent speed of the sun. It still spread itself in that dazzling veil of speed. The world, so much of it as I could see, had assumed a dreadful shade of gloom, as though, in very deed, the last day of the worlds approached.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And, as doth be human, I brake my rule straightway in the beginning.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And this doth show how a man may act foolishly, even when he doth believe that he hath a great caution; and surely it is borne in upon me afresh that none should trust over freely unto unproven matters, the which shall you heartily agree with; but yet do as foolishly, according to your lights and characters. And so shall you laugh not over hardly upon me.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And, surely, this doth seem but a sane thinking unto me; but yet without proof, and to be said to you, only as the shapings of my thoughts.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And lo! the creature did work slow in the brain.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to set out; for every Age hath the subtleties peculiar to that Age; and these to be hard to the understanding of other Ages, but yet to seem plain and utter natural, even without thought, unto the Peoples of the Age.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patience to think long enough upon such.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And I to have gained Honour; yet to have learned that Honour doth be but as the ash of Life, if that you not to have Love. And I to have Love. And to have Love is to have all; for that which doth be truly LOVE doth mother Honour and Faithfulness; and they three to build the House of Joy.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw many creatures that went about the fire, and did have warmth from the fire and drink from the spring; and surely I did ponder that the Peoples of this our Age should say, if they had stood with me, that Providence had made nigh together the warmth and the drink that were needful unto life (for it was grown to a bitter chill now in the Gorge). But rather did this thing seem to me otherwise, that these creatures did be but of their circumstance, and if that it had been another way, then had they grown of their wits to meet it to their means of life. Yet, as some would say, the arguments do but meet, and be the same thing.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet, even did it be ever proved that Man once to be a fish, I to have no cause to abate the first part of mine argument; but to have the more need of the thought, that I gain power to accept the Fact; for I still then to have no occasion that I think Man to have been truly a Fish, or aught truly different from a Man; but only that he did be once Modified physically to his need, and to be still possessed of the Man-Spirit, though all lackt of development. Yet, truly, I to be less offend in my Reason, if that it be shown that Man did be ever somewise in his present shape, though mayhap so brutish as the Humpt Men; but yet I do be ready to consider all matters, and do build no Walls about my Reason. Yet, neither I to have an over-ready acceptance of aught, but to need that my Reason shall approve.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source