Image of Life



And still deeper the meaning of that
story of Narcissus, who because he
could not grasp the tormenting, mild
image he saw in the fountain, plunged
into it and was drowned, But that same
image, we ourselves see in all rivers and
oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable
phantom of life; and this is the
key to it all.

-Herman Melville,
Moby-Dick, 1851







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