At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice- covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air! — how I spurned that turnpike earth! — that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
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“Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort [and so I] turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.”
I’m not sure that it can be said better than that. Recall that this “earthly effort” is a punishment inflicted upon humanity by its “Creator,” and that Biblical Expulsion is a recording. The woe of humanity is inscribed on clay. There is freedom in the abysmal oblivion of the deep. But we cannot seem to bear that cost.
Melville is a constant wonderment to me. Friends, good friends, good readers, I know, struggle to enter it’s “terraqueous” deeps. But I promise that once you find the rhythm you will discover that you will never sound the fullness of it.
I recommend an audiobook to assist you in locating its tidal pull. The Recorded Books, Inc. work by read by Frank Muller is unparalleled.
I have also suggested to friends that they simply read chapters here and there. So, to that end I will list some of my favorites. The chapters are normally fairly short. Let me know your thoughts about them if you read any. Also, if you’d like I could try to read these into audiofiles for you (but you get what you pay for!).
I’ve listed them ordered as they are in the book–but as I said, just pick one and go
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Chapter i, LOOMINGS
Chapter ii, THE CARPET-BAG
Chapter ix, THE SERMON
Chapter xiv, NANTUCKET
Chapter xxiv, THE ADVOCATE
Chapter xxvi KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES
Chapter xxvii KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES
Chapter xxxv THE MAST-HEAD
Chapter xlii THE WHITENESS OF THE WHALE
Chapter lviii BRIT
Chapter lx THE LINE
Chapter lxii THE DART
Chapter lxiv STUBB’S SUPPER
Chapter lxviii THE BLANKET
Chapter lxxii THE MONKEY ROPE
Chapter lxxiv THE SPERM WHALE’S HEAD — CONTRASTED VIEW
Chapter lxxix THE PRAIRE
Chapter lxxxii THE HONOR AND GLORY OF WHALING
Chapter lxxxv THE FOUNTAIN
Chapter lxxxvi THE TAIL
Chapter lxxxvii THE GRAND ARMADA
Chapter lxxxix FAST-FISH AND LOOSE-FISH
Chapter xciii THE CASTAWAY
Chapter xciv A SQUEEZE OF THE HAND
Chapter xcv THE CASSOCK
Chapter xcvi THE TRY-WORKS
Chapter xcix THE DOUBLOON
Chapter cvii THE CARPENTER
Chapter cviii AHAB AND THE CARPENTER
Chapter cxiv THE GILDER
Chapter cxviii THE QUADRANT
Chapter cxix THE CANDLES
Chapter cxxiv THE NEEDLE
Chapter cxxxii THE SYMPHONY
Chapter cxxxiii THE CHASE — FIRST DAY
Chapter cxxxiv THE CHASE — SECOND DAY
Chapter cxxxv THE CHASE — THIRD DAY