Sep 15, 2015
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seen from United States
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seen from China
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it’s fantastic
Chapter 3 The Spouter - Inn
turning flukes: whaling speak for a whale to go under, to dive, and used here by peter coffin in particular to mean to go to bed, to turn in for the night.
was Moby Dick and in particular Peter Coffin and the Spouter - Inn the origin for the stereotypical seaman characters we see in cartoons and games like Monkey Island?
ishmael goes upstairs to his the room he’s sharing with this harpooneer and tries on the harpooner’s door-mat like garb? strange behavior by ishmael to be sure
“a man can be honest in any sort of skin”
grego: a short hooded coat of thick coarse fabric
“better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian”
Chapter 3 - The Spouter-Inn
Hyperborean
the bar of The Spouter - Inn is a the bones of a whales head with Jonah tending bar
skrimshander - one who makes scrimshaws
Bulkington, one of the Grampus crew, ‘they seemed an eruption of bears from Labrador’
farrago - a confused mixture
Mt Hecla = Mt Hekla, a fascinating volcano in Iceland I’d never heard of. How did Melville keep track of all this? How did he work?