Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Melville's globularly-brained Überquaker


May 7, 2014
CHAPTER 16 The Ship

And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin, voluntary, and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language—that man makes one in a whole nation's census—a mighty pageant creature, farmed for noble tragedies.

All Excerpts From

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