I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words. - Jim Harrison

In fact he was as
lovesick as a high schooler of an especially sensitive sort who wonders if he dare share a poem with his
beloved or whether she will laugh at him. He does read her the poem and her feminine capacity for
romanticism for a moment approaches his own and they are suffused in a love trance, a state that so
ineluctably peels back the senses making them fresh again whatever ages the lovers might be.

How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall

How could all this happen when there was an ocean?