Tim Schwalfenberg
Lighthouse
He seemed to live only for his lantern. There he lived, silently, watchfully, his eyes ever fixed on the vessels going or returning; isolated from his fellow-beings; above life, and yet below it; above its affections, its hopes, its fears, its sympathies, and yet only half alive; dead to the world, and yet a world to himself; a fiery human soul in the midst of a waste of waters. -- Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, The Lighthouse: A Novel, 1860
Lighthouse
He seemed to live only for his lantern. There he lived, silently, watchfully, his eyes ever fixed on the vessels going or returning; isolated from his fellow-beings; above life, and yet below it; above its affections, its hopes, its fears, its sympathies, and yet only half alive; dead to the world, and yet a world to himself; a fiery human soul in the midst of a waste of waters. -- Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell, The Lighthouse: A Novel, 1860