Hugging you boyz in counterpane space

[Michael Bailey]

I've always loved that tune (had the album, back in the day), and to
link it with Moby-Dick - bliss!  Bliss!

thanks, alice!

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:02 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg’s arm thrown
> over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost
> thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of
> odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this arm of his
> tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure,
> no two parts of which were of one precise shade- owing I suppose to
> his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt
> sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times- this same arm of his,
> I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork
> quilt. Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I
> could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues
> together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I
> could tell that Queequeg was hugging me, and whispering this
> questions, softly,  "Have you seen the Stars tonight?"
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvetP_Kcgk



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