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is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main... it is a state in itself... and the captain is its king.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main... it is a state in itself... and the captain is its king. Herman Melville

is a complete creation endowed with character, individuality, qualities, and defects, by men whose hands launch her upon the water, and that other men shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of men with men, to love with a love almost as great as that of men for women, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard for defects.

Far different is his feeling towards ships. The sea is fascinating but faithless and heartless... ships are enduringly faithful, constant and responsive to those who handle them aright things almost sentient, and claiming, like living friends, the loyalty and devotion of their servants. In a hundred memorable passages Conrad has described the love they inspire. ''A ship is a complete creation endowed with character, individuality, qualities, and defects, by men whose hands launch her upon the water, and that other men shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of men with men, to love with a love almost as great as that of men for women, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard for defects''

is, in a storm, like a living creature thrown to the bestial fury of a mob

A ship in a storm is like a living creature thrown to the bestial fury of a mob.

is like a body without a soul when without a man.

A ship without a man is like a body without a soul.

is like being in jail with the chance of being drowned.

Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned

is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

is like a woman in that it too is also ever repairing.

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