diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 9166216883..d4d6bfb186 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ node_modules/* npm-debug.log coverage .DS_Store -test/integration/* +test/resources/auth.js +test/integration/ +test/resources/tts-output.ogg diff --git a/test/resources/mobydick.txt b/test/resources/mobydick.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c5b30ece11 --- /dev/null +++ b/test/resources/mobydick.txt @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no money in my purse, +and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery +part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever +I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever +I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral +I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral +principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's +hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol +and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. +There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or +other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. + +There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral +reefs-commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme +downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few +hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there. + +Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from +thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?-Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand +thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some +seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the +rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent +up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the +green fields gone? What do they here? + +But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive. Strange! +Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder +warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without +falling in. And there they stand-miles of them-leagues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, +streets and avenues-north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic +virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither? + +Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and +ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic +in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries-stand that man on his legs, +set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. +Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to +be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for +ever. + +But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit +of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand +his trees, each with a hollow trunk, as if a hermit and a crucifix were within; and here sleeps his +meadow, and there sleep his cattle; and up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke. Deep into distant +woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. +But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves +upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream +before him. Go visit the Prairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among +Tiger-lilies-what is the one charm wanting?-Water-there is not a drop of water there! Were Niagara but +a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it? Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, +upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly +needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach? Why is almost every robust healthy +boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first +voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and +your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks +give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still +deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild +image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see +in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to +it all. + +Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, +and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea +as a passenger. For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless +you have something in it. Besides, passengers get sea-sick-grow quarrelsome-don't sleep of nights-do +not enjoy themselves much, as a general thing;-no, I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something +of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. I abandon the glory and +distinction of such offices to those who like them. For my part, I abominate all honourable respectable +toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care +of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not. And as for going as +cook,-though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on +ship-board-yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls;-though once broiled, judiciously buttered, +and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say +reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will. It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians +upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge +bake-houses the pyramids. + +No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, +aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar +to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. And at first, this sort of thing is unpleasant enough. +It touches one's sense of honour, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, +the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previous to putting +your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest +boys stand in awe of you. The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, +and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even +this wears off in time. + +What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What +does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the +archangel Gabriel thinks anything the less of me, because I promptly and respectfully obey that old +hunks in that particular instance? Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old +sea-captains may order me about-however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of +knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way-either +in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and +all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content. + +Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas +they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves +must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying +is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But BEING +PAID,-what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, +considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account +can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition! + +Finally, I always go to sea as a sailor, because of the wholesome exercise and pure air of the fore-castle +deck. For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never +violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere +at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the +same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little +suspect it. But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should +now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has +the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way-he can +better answer than any one else. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand +programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo +between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: + +"GRAND CONTESTED ELECTION FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. "BLOODY +BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN." + +Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby +part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and +easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces-though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, +now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which +being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, +besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and +discriminating judgment. + +Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a portentous and +mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; +the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand +Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish. With other men, perhaps, such things would not +have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to +sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a +horror, and could still be social with it-would they let me-since it is but well to be on friendly terms +with all the inmates of the place one lodges in. + +By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world +swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost +soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow +hill in the air. \ No newline at end of file