 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...small fowls flew screaming over so the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white FITZ JAMES O'BRIEN (1828-1862) surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed and the great shroud of THE DIAMOND LENS the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. i Тнв BENDING OF THE TWIG EPILOGUE... | |
 | Grant Martin Overton - Fiction - 1928 - 394 pages
...once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. . . . Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. * * * Moby Dick creates the emotion of ancient fiction. In part, it is the purge of Greek drama —... | |
 | Biyot Kesh Tripathy - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 300 pages
...a stem indifferent god, rather than a humane one. Pequod is sunk. Ahab is dragged under the waves. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. (p. 685) And from this sea rises Ishmael whom even a coffin helps to float. Sharks do not harm him... | |
 | Nancy Donohue - Drama - 1986 - 86 pages
...picks up the matches. He sets the book face down on the table, lights a match, looks out to sea. CHRIS. "Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it had five thousand years ago." (He puts the match to the cigarette, draws in, chokes.) SHIT— ! (He... | |
 | Fred K. Johnson - Cerebrovascular disease - 1990 - 152 pages
...often repeated the words as told in the biblical story of the flood and at the close of Moby Dick: "And the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Worse When Judy and Sam visited, the three of us would sneak off to the bay through the hospital's... | |
 | George Willis, William Henry Schubert - Art - 1991 - 396 pages
...metaphoric reference to water that reminds me of the climactic lines of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (". . . then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea...rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago"). Clarke's lines may lack Melville's fluidity and economy, but both writers know how to put humankind... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 424 pages
...experienced. The rest — the significances and ultimacies — are left to settle any way they will once "the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago" (469). A universe so little knowable can seem an alien place for humans. Stephen Crane, Robert Frost,... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1992 - 548 pages
...she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and hel meted herself with it Now small fowl flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf, a sullen...the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.362 EPILOGUE ''and I only am escaped alone to tell thee*63 JOB The drama's done. Why then here... | |
 | William V. Spanos - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...there is no beginning (arche) and after which there is no end (te'Ios) — in both senses of the word: "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...steep sides, then all collapsed, and the great shroud ["pall"] of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago" (p 572, my emphasis) If this catastrophe,... | |
 | Sebastian Junger - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 252 pages
...through the front door at Suffolk Air Base wondering where the hell we all were. THE DREAMS OF THE DEAD All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it had five thousand years ago. — HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick BY the time word has spread throughout... | |
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. 
