“If I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods, who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?”

— Stephen Crane , book The Open Boat

Pt. VI
The Open Boat (1894)
Source: The Open Boat and Other Stories

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American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist 1871–1900

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