Misc. I did not know that Melville

[Markekohut]

Also enlisted In the US Navy, after going to sea on commercial ventures
AND, did we know,

 that with George Gordon Lord Byron's international
Popularity -that a Navy chaplain, Rev Walter Colton,
Published these lines about BYRON in the famous Knickerbocker Magazine?: 

"As if some comet, plunging from its height,
Should pause upon the ocean's boiling surge;
And, in defiance of its darksome doom,
Light for itself a fierce volcanic tomb! "

Byron the bulb, indeed. A darksome screaming, indeed. 

In an issue of The Knickerbocker Magazine which published the
Original story of "Mocha Dick", there appeared a piece on the
Capital needed to send a whaling ship to sea---50 Gs---to procure for
 the masses "cheap and commodious light"...." Before the investor
Has pocketed his 6%, he has trimmed the lamp of the cottager who borrows
An hour from evening to complete her day's labor", etc...

It's about light. And work. 



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