Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


"To hell with you," was his answer. "Go ahead an' smash the boats.
You can hang some of them. But you can't touch me with the law.
'Tis me that's a crippled creature of circumstance, too weak to raise
a hand against any man--a feather blown about by the windy contention
of men strong in their back an' brainless in their heads."


"As you please," I said.


"As I can't help pleasin'," he retorted, "bein' what I am an' so made
for the little flash between the darknesses which men call life. Now
why couldn't I a-ben a butterfly, or a fat pig in a full trough, or a
mere mortal man with a straight back an' women to love me? Go on an'
smash the boats. Play hell to the top of your bent. Like me, you'll
end in the darkness. And your darkness'll be--as dark as mine."

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