When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The days had shortened and night came swiftly. One moment it was light, the next it was dark. The sun did not set but fell into the water like a meteor. Late in the evening, when I went out briefly, a hot wind slapped my face. From the ocean came a roar of passions that seemed to have broken through all barriers:'We mus procreate and multiply! We must exhaust all the powers of lust!' The waves glowed like lava, and I imagined I could see multitudes of living beings - algae, whales, sea monsters - reveling in an orgy, from the surface to the bottom of the sea. Immortality was the law here. The whole planet raged with animation. At times, I heard my name in the clamor: the spirit of the abyss calling me to join them in their nocturnal dance. ("Hanka")

After he had achieved success as a writer in New York Singer and his wife began spending time during the winters with the Jewish community in Miami. In the foreword to his personally selected volume of his finest short stories he describes the two aforementioned writers as the greatest masters of the short story form. " which became a classical reference in the discussions about the legitimacy of the comparison of animal exploitation with the holocaust.

Isaac BaIsaac Bashevis Singervis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21 1902 – July 24 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. National Book Awards one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym Izaak Baszewis which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known.