Saturday, May 10, 2014

king-post

It takes guts to use a metaphor in which the vehicle requires definition.

May 10, 2014
CHAPTER 27 Knights and Squires

Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.

All Excerpts From

Melville, Herman. "Moby-Dick." Harlequin, 2009. iBooks.
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