Dance Me to the End of Love

'Brutishness,' I suggested. ¡¡¡¡'Yes, thank you for the word- all my brutishness; but he can scarcely read or write.' ¡¡¡¡'And he has never philosophized on life,' I added. ¡¡¡¡'No,' Wolf Larsen answered, with an indescribable air of sadness. 'And he is all the happier for leaving life alone. He is too busy living it to think about it. My mistake was in ever opening the books.' ¡¡¡¡¡CHAPTER ELEVEN. ¡¡¡¡THE GHOST HAS ATTAINED the southernmost point of the arc she is describing across the Pacific, and is already beginning to edge away to the west and north toward some lone island, it is rumored, where she will fill her water-casks before proceeding to the season's hunt along the coast of Japan. The hunters have experimented and practiced with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their sprit-sails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order, to use Leach's homely phrase.