Saturday, November 13, 2010

Happy birthday Robert Louis Stevenson

Today is Robert Louis Stevenson's 160th birthday.

From Treasure Island:

Dead men don't bite.

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.


Now, that bird ... is, maybe, two hundred years old, Hawkins--they live forever mostly; and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the devil himself.


Them that die will be the lucky ones!

Photo courtesy of SXC

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