Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"If you'd ever stood up in the ring an' out-gamed an' out-fought
a man as good as yourself for twenty rounds, you'd get what I'm
drivin' at. Jim Hazard an' I get it when we swim out through the
surf an' laugh in the teeth of the biggest breakers that ever
pounded the beach, an' when we come out from the shower, rubbed
down and dressed, our skin an' muscles like silk, our bodies an'
brains all a-tinglin' like silk. . . ."


He paused and gave up from sheer inability to express ideas that
were nebulous at best and that in reality were remembered
sensations.

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