>Then again, as Melville also wrote:
"The path to my fixed purpose is laid with carbon rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents’ beds, unerringly I rush! Naught’s an obstacle, naught’s an angle to the carbon way!"
He did?<
OK - I substituted "carbon" for "iron" in the original. Either way, apropos, don't you think?
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