Comments on: Moby-Dick Big Read, Day 32 http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2012/10/moby-dick-big-read-day-32/ Being a ... course, companion, blog, and book. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:07:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin Faulkner http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2012/10/moby-dick-big-read-day-32/comment-page-1/#comment-6681 Kevin Faulkner Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:39:02 +0000 http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/?p=4278#comment-6681 There’s quite a few analogies used by Melville in Moby from his reading on a beached spermaceti by Browne, not least Browne’s observation on the difference in scale of the small size of the whale’s eye to its giant body.

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