Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


And while he talked he hated me. He seemed to hate the things he
talked about and espoused. I judged him to be of Irish descent, and
it was patent that he was self-educated. When I asked him how it was
he had come to sea, he replied that the hooks in his brain were as
hot one place as another. He unbent enough to tell me that he had
been an athlete, when he was a young man, a professional foot-racer
in Eastern Canada. And then his disease had come upon him, and for a
quarter of a century he had been a common tramp and vagabond, and he
bragged of a personal acquaintance with more city prisons and county
jails than any man that ever existed.

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