“The sea, this truth must be confessed, has no generosity. No display of manly qualities, courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness, has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.” “The sea, this truth must be confessed, has no generosity. No display of manly qualities, courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness, has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”JOSEPH CONRAD The closest iceberg was small, about twenty feet long, and floated sullenly on an oily sea. There was an ugly dark green band just above the waterline, and groups of what appeared to be pebbles above that. Behind the first berg were others, of all shapes and sizes, from floes no larger than Lady Balgay"s dinghy to giants that would dwarf Dundee Law. Lady Balgay"s"Fend

