The Hairy Ape

Excerpt: SCENE?The firemen's forecastle of a transatlantic liner an hour after sailing from New York for the voyage across. Tiers of narrow, steel bunks, three deep, on all sides. An entrance in rear. Benches on the floor before the bunks. The room is crowded with men, shouting, cursing, laughing, singing?a confused, inchoate uproar swelling into a sort of unity, a meaning?the bewildered, furious,...