Ursus update
by chuckofish
DN is re-reading Moby-Dick and, reading this about Ahab in the chapter about dining at the captain’s table, he thought I’d like the reference to bears in Missouri:
“Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it. He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!”
Of course, I did.
(I also love that phrase, “nominally included in the census of Christendom”.)
Have a good weekend–re-read something good, watch out for bears!
(Photo–St. Louis Public Radio)
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Melville is just the best!
Agreed! I love “burying himself in the hollow of an old tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws.” I am contemplating a similar winter retreat!
So great!