Friday, July 24, 2009

The Wine-Dark Sea, by Patrick O'Brian: 5 stars

"Will I confess a grave sin?" he asked.

"Do, by all means," said Jack, looking at him kindly. "But if you managed to commit a grave sin between the gunroom and here you have a wonderful capacity for evil." p. 90


[T]hough which came first, the deed or the doer, the goose or the egg, I am not learned enough to tell."

"Would it not be the owl, at all?"

"Never in life, my poor Stephen. Who ever heard of a golden owl?" p. 106



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