Dark Nantucket Noon
“And I tell you what it is, Mr. Starbuck, there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat.”
Moby Dick It was almost hot. Wet and hot. A mist steamed up from the ground, mingling with the fog that hung in the middle air, and the fog in its turn blended with the heavy low-hanging clouds that obscured the sky. There had been foghorns baying in the night. Kitty put on a shirt and a pair of jeans over her bathing suit, picked up her bucket and trowel and her notebook, and drove t...o a beach called Dionis on the north shore of the island. One of her tourist pamphlets had described it as a popular bathing beach. On a day like this she could have it to herself.
The low bluff was like a rough forehead sprouting hair. The bluffs to left and right were lost in mist. Kitty put her things down on the sand and looked at the low waves seething softly at the bottom of the beach. Beyond them there was no line to tell where the water ended and the gray sky began. The world was all one substance, fog, bog, shaggy and ragged and moist, dripping, drenched, flooded, engulfed.MoreLess
Moby Dick It was almost hot. Wet and hot. A mist steamed up from the ground, mingling with the fog that hung in the middle air, and the fog in its turn blended with the heavy low-hanging clouds that obscured the sky. There had been foghorns baying in the night. Kitty put on a shirt and a pair of jeans over her bathing suit, picked up her bucket and trowel and her notebook, and drove t...o a beach called Dionis on the north shore of the island. One of her tourist pamphlets had described it as a popular bathing beach. On a day like this she could have it to herself.
The low bluff was like a rough forehead sprouting hair. The bluffs to left and right were lost in mist. Kitty put her things down on the sand and looked at the low waves seething softly at the bottom of the beach. Beyond them there was no line to tell where the water ended and the gray sky began. The world was all one substance, fog, bog, shaggy and ragged and moist, dripping, drenched, flooded, engulfed.MoreLess
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