“The ocean ends, like life and vision, at a horizon that is the fault of the curvature of eye and earth, with no proof of true end at all. The ocean seems indefinite. It presents the eye with a line that is an illusion. We linger on its shores, or live on its surfaces, but never have a means of encompassing the whole.”
Dan Beachy-Quick, A Whaler’s Dictionary, 2008.



