I always enjoy walking along the tide pools in La Jolla. Depending on the time of day and the season, they are ever-changing, yet constant. The character "Doc" from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row haunts the place for me. In the novel, Doc travels to La Jolla to collect baby octopi in the tide pools.
"The creeping murderer, the octopus, steals out, slowly, softly, moving like a gray mist, pretending now to be a bit of weed, now a rock, now a lump of decaying meat while its evil goat eyes watch coldly. ... suddenly it runs lightly on the tips of its arms, as ferociously as a charging cat." - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
"It always seems strange to me... the things we admire in men - kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling - are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest - sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest - are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
"Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him." - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
"Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon." - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
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