I kind of feel like I have an advantage here--I live in New England, so all of this is really concrete for me. I go to a church that has a pulpit like the one in Ch. 8, for example. The tablets on the walls aren't about whalers, but they're still pretty cool. (One of them praises a privateer! Pic on request, assuming I can figure out how imgur works.)
I'd love to stay at a hotel that had free endless buckets of chowdah! I can't eat more than a bowl at a time, but then again, I live in a world of radiators and insulated winter boots. Calories aren't as necessary as they were for Ishmael and Queequeg...
It even has the ladder rather than a spiral stair?!? If so, can you explain the reference to joints in the ladder? I'm having trouble visualizing them, since if I'm reading it correctly, the sides are ropes...which seems to me would make the ladder bendy enough to haul up & stow easily, without having to add additional hardware to make it fold.
(Minor descriptive confusion aside, I do love the pulpit as a prow, and the final paragraph of the chapter: "the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete...")
Whoops, haha I forgot about the ladder. No, it's just a regular wineglass pulpit. I was picturing a ladder like this, but less fancy: http://www.skipjackmarinegallery.com/product/PHSA04.html
Or one where the rungs are wood and the sides are ropes.
Ha, that is a sharp contrast to my experience! I realized partway through his description of Nantucket that, though I've heard of it before, I actually had no idea where it was. I ended up googling it to figure it out.
(I would like to see a picture of that tablet, if it's not inconvenient/imgur works for you.)
I have to say, that whole segment on the chowder made me hungry.
DA I live in New England now, too, although oddly enough I live in a port city and usually forget it...but a lot of the atmospheric details resonate with me. I don't recall having seen tablets in churches, but I've definitely wandered through graveyards and seen stones for sailors lost at sea.
And I don't even like chowder, but that chapter made me look up recipes.
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Date: 2016-01-16 11:00 pm (UTC)I'd love to stay at a hotel that had free endless buckets of chowdah! I can't eat more than a bowl at a time, but then again, I live in a world of radiators and insulated winter boots. Calories aren't as necessary as they were for Ishmael and Queequeg...
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Date: 2016-01-17 01:20 am (UTC)(Minor descriptive confusion aside, I do love the pulpit as a prow, and the final paragraph of the chapter: "the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete...")
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Date: 2016-01-17 08:50 pm (UTC)Or one where the rungs are wood and the sides are ropes.
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Date: 2016-01-19 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-17 09:55 pm (UTC)(I would like to see a picture of that tablet, if it's not inconvenient/imgur works for you.)
I have to say, that whole segment on the chowder made me hungry.
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Date: 2016-01-19 01:57 am (UTC)And I don't even like chowder, but that chapter made me look up recipes.
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Date: 2016-01-19 09:10 pm (UTC)