This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK III THE VOYAGE OF THE WHITE ATLANTIS La triste experience Nous apporte la cendre--et n'eteint pas le feu. Musset, Lettre a Lamartine. CHAPTER XX MORNING ON THE ATLANTIC "AND yet I began these Memoirs as a crazy Utopian..!...." Nearly an hour had slipped past unheeded since Montplessis wrote this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK III THE VOYAGE OF THE WHITE ATLANTIS La triste experience Nous apporte la cendre--et n'eteint pas le feu. Musset, Lettre a Lamartine. CHAPTER XX MORNING ON THE ATLANTIC "AND yet I began these Memoirs as a crazy Utopian..!...." Nearly an hour had slipped past unheeded since Montplessis wrote this sentence. The ink had long ago dried and the White Atlantis must have covered more than a dozen nautical miles. But Montplessis had scarcely moved an inch from his posture of rapt inattention, with his keen grey eyes fixed absently upon the fulgorous sheet of sunshine that followed in their wake. The thick glass walls of Peter Borkheim's turret showed an uninterrupted vista of encircling Atlantic. "And yet I commenced these Memoirs as a crazy Utopian.' The fingers twitched at last, the pen stole back again to the tempting sheet of foolscap, and another sentence shaped itself underneath. "And perhaps as a sane Utopian I shall finish them." He was weary of himself--there was his secret. And he knew that he was not alone in this eccentricity. Schopenhauer and the Chinese philosophers, for example. Had they not taught that the ' ego, ' the ' tao ' was the greatest of nuisances, that the ultimate escape from personality was the highest hope of men? And then that whole tremendous cycle of Avatars and Upanishads (though he was not quite clear what these unwieldy names denoted, or how they were related to one another). Montplessis had eschewed such teachings and courted the contrary tradition of self-expansion. But at thirty-three a man begins to stumble over his life's mistakes. And Montplessis closed his eyes and nodded approvingly at a mental image of the seated Buddha. "You may have been right, monsieur Gautama," he admitted. "I perceive that you...
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