"Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung."

I remember a whale watch, years ago, off Cape Cod. My beloved Jeanne and I watched a pod of fin whales feeding, just off the portside of the boat. We were both seasick; but, that didn't stop us from marveling.

I'll bet the people in the boat are opponents of his.

"I was just out fishing with my buddies and when we came up for air this guy in a boat nearly hit us! "