The Sea-Wolf

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London, Jack

"The Sea-Wolf"

What immortal end did you serve? Or did they? Consider yourself and me. What does your boasted immortality amount to when your life runs foul of mine? You would like to go back to the land, which is a favorable place for your kind of piggishness. It is a whim of mine to keep you aboard this ship, where my piggishness flourishes. And keep you I will. I may make or break you. You may die today, this week, or next month. I could kill you now, with a blow of my fist, for you are a miserable weakling. But if we are immortal, what is the reason for this? To be piggish as you and I have been all our lives does not seem to be just the thing for immortals to be doing. Again, what's it all about? Why have I kept you here?'

? ? ? ? 'Because you are stronger,' I managed to blurt out.

? ? ? ? 'But why stronger?' he went on at once with his perpetual queries. 'Because I am a bigger bit of the ferment than you. Don't you see? Don't you see?'

? ? ? ? 'But the hopelessness of it,' I protested.

? ? ? ? 'I agree with you,' he answered.

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London, Jack

"The Sea-Wolf"