2023 Season

“Oh! Ahab,” cried Starbuck, “not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!” -- HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick; or, The Whale

“Cree-keet! Cree-keet! Cree-keet!” -- DOUGLAS ADAMS, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: Tertiary Phase

"And he imagined himself with Pooh, saying, “Did you ever see such rain, Pooh?” and Pooh saying, “Isn't it awful, Piglet?” and Piglet saying, “I wonder how it is over Christopher Robin's way,” and Pooh saying, “I should think poor old Rabbit is about flooded out by this time.” It would have been jolly to talk like this, and really, it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody." -- A A MILNE, Winnie-the-Pooh

"I am also aware that before very long the story of the boys must finish, that you and I must also say good-bye to Brendon Chase. And the public will demand a MORAL! they will also, in duty bound, side with Aunt Ellen and Bunting, and I shall not have a leg to stand on. The action of the boys in running away was wrong, terribly wrong. They would, as Robin once said, have to take what was coming to them. And quite rightly too. If everyone acted as the boys had acted and thought only of self, we should all be in a fine old pickle and the British Empire would cease to be. Life demands that every individual must contribute something towards the good of the community and not live and think entirely for self. // But in the case of the boys their passion for hunting and fishing – in Robin’s case especially – their love of the open air and nature, had got the better of them. Perhaps they were ‘throwbacks’ to the time when every man and woman lived as they were living, hunting for food and dwelling in caves and holes in trees. All I will say is, that there are worse things in life than that. // To these three boys had come the opportunity to live that wild savage existence for a while. They had seized it, damning the consequences. We will leave it to the moralist to say whether their action was right or wrong. I doubt anyone would call Robin Hood a bad man." -- BB, Brendon Chase

“Water, water everywhere, and never a drop to drink” -- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"We stood side by side, my cousin and I, and viewed the disaster with the gloomy, helpless ignorance of jurymen at a coroner’s inquest, and the mirage of tea that had risen before our thirsty eyes a few moments before, sank into the yellow sand in which wallowed our broken-winged wagonette." -- E Œ SOMERVILLE & MARTIN ROSS, In the Vine Country

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.” -- MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein