Not P but Moby-Dick (83)

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Mark.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 4:49 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some writers' imaginations/writing is more engaged, more animated, becomes
> fulsome even
> with certain subjects that engage them over other subjects..
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From Chapter 104:
>>
>> One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though
>> it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this
>> Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals.
>> Give
>> me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends,
>> hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this
>> Leviathan,
>> they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness
>> of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the
>> generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come,
>> with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the
>> whole universe, not excluding its suburbs.
>>
>> What does "rise and swell" mean here?
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>