“I like to be near water whenever possible, don’t you?” he said, gazing into the dark. “Melville put it best: ‘Nothing will content men but the extremest limit of the land’ – but that’s not it, I can’t recall the quote. It’s in our nature to seek out the edge. Even on a golf course.”

“I like to be near water whenever possible, don’t you?” he said, gazing into the dark. “Melville put it best: ‘Nothing will content men but the extremest limit of the land’ – but that’s not it, I can’t recall the quote. It’s in our nature to seek out the edge. Even on a golf course.”

— Jennifer Egan