But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself stil…

Herman Melville
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.366
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy. ✨ Herman Melville (1892). Moby Dick, p.366

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