Herman Melville was born on this date in 1819.
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville, from Moby Dick
Nathaniel Philbrick speaks at the Melville on Nantucket symposium at the Quaker Meeting House, August 14, 2019 ...
Fonts In Use tribute to Moby Dick is HERE.
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