, Book III not to mention what is confidently reported of mermaids, or sea-men

The supposed religious tone must be banished, so far as it is applied to the book itself or to the words printed in it; but there is a reverential tone, properly applicable to the meaning conveyed by the words, which should be cultivated.

I want to run fast and far away. I have an overwhelming urge to cry. I just need to get away from all this fuckedupness.

And for the oughts—by which I suppose we must identify our new millennium's first decade—projected tonnage figures keep up the mind-boggling pace.