I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would…

I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

Sourced, Cloud Atlas (2004)

“The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing”, pp. 528-9.

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