Moby Dick

[fuzzygobo]

Entering, I found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors' wives and widows.

Stained glass widows? 8)
I'll shut up now.

 

[ConsummateVs]

When is this gonna continue? It's been nearly a whole week since the last post.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Hey, it was fun while it lasted.

 

[Old Thunder]

Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say-here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these.

 

[Old Thunder]

What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!

 

[Old Thunder]

What despair in those immovable inscriptions!

 

[Old Thunder]

What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.

 

[Old Thunder]

As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta* as here.

*Near Bombay, India, an island dedicated to worship of the Hindu god Shiva, spirit of destruction.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Oh? Is it continuing?

 

[Old Thunder]

In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets that the Goodwin Sands;* how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumour of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.

*Dangerous shoals near the coast of England.