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Quotation from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve”
Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245)
After Bixby tells him that telling a bluff reef from a wind reef is an instinct, Twain describes learning to read the river.
Citation: "The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve" — Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9 (Project Gutenberg #245). (id life-on-the-mississippi-q3)
Portrait: Life on the Mississippi, Unknown, Public domain.
