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“I wish I could describe the feeling of being at sea, the anguish, frustration, and fear, the beauty that accompanies threatening spectacles, the spiritual communion with creatures in whose domain I sail. There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se. My own cosmology is convoluted and not in line with any particular church or philosphy. But for me, to go to sea is to glimpse the face of God. At sea i am reminded of my insignificance-- of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.”

“La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los novelistas. La mayor parte de los escritores que se ocupan de ese tema, en realidad, son mas escépticos respecto de los espíritus, los demonios y los espantapájaros de lo que suele serlo el hombre de la calle. Lovecraft era ateo. Edgar Allan Poe, un trascendentalista bastante ignorante. Y la religión de Hawthorne no era mas que convencional.”