Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

"You might hit him," he explained. "And I want him for myself."

Life is never what we expect it to be. All our voyage from Baltimore
south to the Horn and around the Horn has been marked by violence and
death. And now that it has culminated in open mutiny there is no
more violence, much less death. We keep to ourselves aft, and the
mutineers keep to themselves for'ard. There is no more harshness, no
more snarling and bellowing of commands; and in this fine weather a
general festival obtains.