Out with the tide

Posted by ZOzz on April 11, 2009 at 09:00

In Reply to: Out with the tide posted by Katos on April 07, 2009 at 11:25:

: the death of captain Ahab in Moby Dick: "The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the groove; - ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths"