sevenknotwind: sevenknotwind: BRIAN ENOby Alfred Dunhill (this...

sevenknotwind:

sevenknotwind:

BRIAN ENO
by Alfred Dunhill
(this series of Dunhill videos are all pretty good, but this is my favorite)

are you a cowboy or a farmer?

what if I’m a sailor?

“Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.

…when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger. No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. 

…I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it – would they let me – since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.”

(excerpts from Melville’s Moby Dick ch.1)