Bulbeck, Laura (ed) - Pirates & Ghosts / Булбек, Лаура (ред) - Пираты и призраки [2018, EPUB, ENG]

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“IT’S THE MATERIAL,” said the old ship’s doctor…. “The Material, plus the Conditions; and, maybe,” he added slowly, “a third factor – yes, a third factor; but there, there….” He broke off his half-meditative sentence, and began to charge his pipe. “Go on, Doctor,” we said, encouragingly, and with more than a little expectancy. We were in the smoke-room of the Sand-a-lea, running across the North Atlantic; and the Doctor was a character. He concluded the charging of his pipe, and lit it; then settled himself, and began to express himself more fully: “The Material,” he said, with conviction, “is inevitably the medium of expression of the Life-Force – the fulcrum, as it were; lacking which, it is unable to exert itself, or, indeed, to express itself in any form or fashion that would be intelligible or evident to us. “So potent is the share of the Material in the production of that thing which we name Life, and so eager the Life-Force to express itself, that I am convinced it would, if given the right Conditions, make itself manifest even through so hopeless-seeming a medium as a simple block of sawn wood; for I tell you, gentlemen, the Life-Force is both as fiercely urgent and as indiscriminate as Fire – the Destructor; yet which some are now growing to consider the very essence of Life rampant…. There is a quaint seeming paradox there,” he concluded, nodding his old grey head. . . .