Suddenly full long wail a ship’s horn surged open window flooded dim r — Yukio Mishima, Sailor Fell Grace Sea

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Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room – a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. Full of the glitter and the frenzy of night, the horn thundered in, conveying from the distant offing, from the dead center of the sea, a thirst for the dark nectar in the little room.

Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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