I have always disliked the sea, its surliness, its menace, its vast reaches and unknowable, shudder-inducing… — John Banville

Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance.

I suspect that significant first encounters only take on their aura of significance in retrospect.

I was pondering the question, which I have pondered before, of whether such great revelatory moments really so occur, or if it is only that, out of need, our lives so lacking in drama, we invest past events with a significance they do not warrant.