2 1 2 2 70 82 toward everything intellectual. He
loved books, never going to sea
without a newly replenished library,
compact but of the best. The isolated
leisure, in some cases so wearisome ,
falling at intervals to commanders
even during a war-cruise, never was
tedious to Captain Vere. With nothing
of that literary taste which less heeds
the matter ^ thing conveyed than the style vehicle , his bias
was toward those books to which
every ^ seriously superior serious mind of superior order mind at once serious and
broad and occupying ^ a any active post of
an authority in the world, naturally
takes to; inclines: books treating of a real
actual men and events no matter of what
era—history, biography and
2 1 2 2 70 82 toward everything intellectual. He
loved books, never going to sea
without a newly replenished library,
compact but of the best. The isolated
leisure, in some cases so wearisome ,
falling at intervals to commanders
even during a war-cruise, never was
tedious to Captain Vere. With nothing
of that literary taste which less heeds
the matter ^ thing conveyed than the style vehicle , his bias
was toward those books to which
every ^ seriously superior serious mind of superior order mind at once serious and
broad and occupying ^ a any active post of
an authority in the world, naturally
takes to; inclines: books treating of a real
actual men and events no matter of what
era—history, biography and

Transcribed by: John Bryant