Beginings, Moby Dick-wise

[Joe Varo]

On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Juan Cires Martinez wrote:

> I'm reading Moby Dick right now, and when the ship finally gets to sea,
> at the end of a chapter titled Merry Christmas, I read:
> 
>    a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave
>    three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the
>    lone Atlantic.
> 
>    [End of chapter]
> 
> Screaming and flying in Christmas time, when fateful ships depart...

There is also a sentence in Section 1 of GR, where Mexico and Pointsman
are on the beach, where reference is made to a gull screaming by overhead.

Joe