Johnson Flew

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    Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)