It will be a strange sort of book
On Moby-Dick, in a letter to Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1 May 1850)
Kontext: It will be a strange sort of book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree; — & to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy, which from the nature of the thing, must be ungainly as the gambols of the whales themselves. Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this.
„Prísne vzato, iba jeden druh kníh rozmnožil šťastie na svete: kuchárske knihy.“
„Všetky druhy umenia sú dobré, okrem druhu nudného.“
Prisudzované výroky
Varianta: Láska je dôverčivá.
