And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image... moby-dick or the whale - Page 17by herman melville - 1922Full view - About this book
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to am whenever 1 begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not... | |
| Raymond Melbourne Weaver - Authors, American - 1921 - 446 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to all." The key he here offers to the heart of his mystery is itself locked in mystery; though when he... | |
| Edward O. Wilson - Nature - 1984 - 182 pages
...region." The yearning is of a very general kind, generating symbolism across many categories of thought. "It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all." Cyril S. Smith, A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History (Cambridge: MIT... | |
| Willard Hallam Bonner - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 142 pages
...this he is positive and personal, never reaching the poignant pitch of Ishmael's cry about the sea: "It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."Thoreau's sea flashed symbols of imagination and spirit, tokens of infinity occasionally touching... | |
| Pamela Schirmeister - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 254 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...ungraspable phantom of life, and this is the key to it all. (p. i4) In an obvious sense, the whole of Moby Dicf( is a commentary on the myth of Narcissus, but... | |
| Pamela V. Grabe - Social Science - 392 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all." References American Psychiatric Association (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of disorders.... | |
| Juan Bruce-Novoa - Literary Collections - 1990 - 196 pages
...contingencia. Juan Garcia Ponce, La aparicion de lo invisible. But that same image, we ourselves see . . . It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. Herman Melville, Moby Dick. Only from nothing are there infinite possibilities — all simultaneously... | |
| Catherine H. Zuckert - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 294 pages
...plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. 1t is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. (p. 14) Human beings reasonably associate water with the source of life. The problem is that they tend... | |
| George Willis, William Henry Schubert - Art - 1991 - 396 pages
...ever. (P. 22) And referring to the image of ourselves we see whenever we look into water, he suggests, "It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all" (23). And as had Ishmael, so I, too, having inevitably followed paths along the metaphorical streams... | |
| Richard Kopley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 372 pages
...tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all."28 The phantom of life, the key to it all, is the object of Ishmael's voyaging through Pacific... | |
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