There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.
Pirates have always fascinated me.