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  • All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
    shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
    smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
    further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
    falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
    come out of the sea for all of us.

    John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”