| All people think that New Zealand is close
to Australia or Asia, or somewhere, and that you cross to it on a bridge.
But that is not so. It is not close to anything, but lies by itself, out
in the water. It is nearest to Australia, but still not near. The gap between
is very wide. It will be a surprise to the reader, as it was to me, to learn
that the distance from Australia to New Zealand is really twelve or thirteen
hundred miles, and that there is no bridge. - Following the Equator |
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| Away down here fifty-five degrees south of the equator this sea seems
to murmur in an unfamiliar tongue -- a foreign tongue -- a tongue bred among
the ice-fields of the Antarctic -- a murmur with a note of melancholy in
it proper to the vast unvisited solitudes it has come from. It was very
delicious & solacing to wake in the night & find it still pulsing
there. I wish you were here -- land, but it would be fine! - Letter to Joseph Twichell, 29 November 1895 |
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