Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

42. A SHORT NOTE TO ADD FROM EMMAUS:

"Sit back my son and listen to this because the seasons as they change will make you notice and the words you hear others speak will only re-assert what you will hear and if this short life is a curve of learning you might as well take it in and relish the moment – so here’s the actual part of what you need to know : ‘Ah Prometheus! Heaven scaling! In such hours of exultation even the faintest heart unquailing might behold the vulture sailing round the cloudy crags Causacian!’ Longfellow wrote that and I just lifted it to give to you and FURTHERMORE my fine fellow there’s more than that to come : ‘the greatest of American Prometheans was Herman Melville and the maniacally brilliant Captain Ahab in Moby Dick is a latter-day Prometheus in the isolating Pacific wastes’ and maybe that’s no different in its own way than you or I wasting away on Garside Street looking for things which are no longer there and singing like Harrow some old tune from another day WELL for that all there’s nothing to go by to guide to take us hither and yon for lost as WE too can be amidst a sea of rivets and a swarm of darts we struggle forward alone and try to figure what to make of the rest the all the very very best of everything and the rest and the highest most fertile God there ever was of whom once (it was noted) looked downward far and said his piece: ‘As for long suffering men he took no care at all and indeed his plan was to make the whole of their race extinct and then form another race instead and EXCEPT FOR ME no one opposed his purpose’ - so the high earth swivels on the shuddering sea."