Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

"Except music," I threw in.

"Yes, but the sea and all the long-voyaging has cheated me out of
most of the music I oughta have had coming to me."

"I suppose you've heard Schumann Heink?"

"Wonderful, wonderful!" he murmured fervently, then regarded me with
an eager wistfulness. "I've half-a-dozen of her records, and I've
got the second dog-watch below. If Captain West don't mind . . . "
(Captain West nodded that he didn't mind). "And if you'd want to
hear them? The machine is a good one."