Last ten days on Moby Dick : Laurel : Chapter 132 The Symphony

[bryan87613]

Quite right you are--Chapter 132 The Symphony could very well bring to mind Mozart's Requiem (Mass for the dead).

I liked the opening paragraph (feminine sky) of the chapter in juxtoposition with the paragraph that you quoted (masculine sea). It was one of the great moments in reading this book.

[fanuzzir]

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bryan87613 wrote:
Quite right you are--Chapter 132 The Symphony could very well bring to mind Mozart's Requiem (Mass for the dead).

I liked the opening paragraph (feminine sky) of the chapter in juxtoposition with the paragraph that you quoted (masculine sea). It was one of the great moments in reading this book.

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That's one of the most gorgeous passages in the novel--to think that Melville is finding a whole new aesthetic in the already tired (by his time) genre of sea adventure.

[Laurel]

Yes, it is gorgeous. Thank you, Choisya, for making me go back to read it again.

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fanuzzir wrote:

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bryan87613 wrote:
Quite right you are--Chapter 132 The Symphony could very well bring to mind Mozart's Requiem (Mass for the dead).

I liked the opening paragraph (feminine sky) of the chapter in juxtoposition with the paragraph that you quoted (masculine sea). It was one of the great moments in reading this book.

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That's one of the most gorgeous passages in the novel--to think that Melville is finding a whole new aesthetic in the already tired (by his time) genre of sea adventure.

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