https://un01s.github.io/notes/tags/herman-melville/ Recent content in Herman Melville on un01s notes Hugo en Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:10:47 -0600 https://un01s.github.io/notes/posts/20260730/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:10:47 -0600 https://un01s.github.io/notes/posts/20260730/ <blockquote> <p>“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. <strong>The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, — what will compare with it?</strong> The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!” &ndash; Herman Melville, Moby-Dick</p>