From the Octopus pg 372-383
Characters:
Presley - Main character
Bronderson - friend of Presley killed by the "monster"
Caraher - friend of Presley
Vanamee - friend of Presley
Angele - wife of Vanamee
S. Behrman - owner of the largest elevator on the shipping docks to load the bulk wheat onto the ships. He did this to save money, in materials of the sacks and the labor of men.
Places:
Caraher's Place - Saloon
Long Trestle - farm/property; silence, desolation, abandonment
Annixter - farm/property; silence, desolation, abandonment
Los Muertos - farm - wheat fields
Quien Sabe - farm, wheat fields
Port Costa - town where the train brought S. Behrman
Swanhilda - ship, with the large holding "hold" for the bulk wheat to be elevated into from the largest elevator owned by S. Behrman.
It was the season after the harvest, and the great earth, the mother, after it's period of reproduction, its pains of labour, delivered of the fruit of its loins, slept the sleep of exhaustion in the infinite repose of the colossus, benignant, eternal, strong, the nourisher of nations, the feeder of an entire world. pg 373
"Death and grief are little things," he said. "They are transient. Life must be before death, and joy before grief. Else there are no such things as death or grief. These are only negatives. Life is positive. Death is only the absence of life, just as night is only the absence of day, and if this is so, there is no such thing as death. There is only life, and the suppression of life, that we foolishly, say is death. pg 374
"Evil is short-lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole, is in the end, perfect." pg 375
But the WHEAT remained. Untouched, unassailable, undefiled, that mighty world-force, that nourisher of nations wrapped in Nirvanic claim, indifferent to the human swarm, gigantic, resistless, moved onward in its appointed grooves. pg 383
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