15 July 2008

Quote

"Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous. For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance."

- Hermann Melville, Moby Dick, instalment 34 of 260 from DailyLit

(I put the whole paragraph in for context but really all I wanted to show you was the last sentence. And while I'm here, said last sentence appears in both large AND bold text because I don't know how Swurl will deal with either; it doesn't reproduce quotation blocks, which is why I now use quotation marks too... making it look pretty stupid, yes.) UPDATE: Swurl does indeed reproduce both bold text and changes in font size.

(And by the way, the problem with testing things in Swurl is that - currently, anyway - you can't delete updates. But apart from that, I really like it. Swurl Is Good.)