‘The Forge’

“Well, well; no more.  Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me.  In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad.  Thou should’st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad?  How can’st thou endure without being mad?  Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can’st not go mad?”

Melville, Herman. “Chapter One Hundred Thirteen: The Forge.” Moby Dick.

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