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The work is divided into three sections – The Night, Moby-Dick, and Cape Cod. These titles are in reference to Herman Melville 's novel Moby Dick, or The Whale . Takemitsu wished to emphasize the spiritual dimension of the book, quoting the passage, "meditation and water are wedded together".
Moby Dick House of Kabob (Persian: موبی دیک: خانه کباب) is a Persian kabob restaurant chain in the Washington metropolitan area.It is named after a restaurant in Tehran which was right near the American Embassy during the Pahlavi's time; that restaurant was closed after the Iranian revolution in 1979. [3]
Best waterfront views at Cape Cod restaurants. The view from The Chart Room in Falmouth. Harbors to open sea, clambakes to lobster rolls, eat at these beautiful waterfront places in Dennis ...
From Cape Cod, always seems to have a pipe in his mouth and a smile on his face. "Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whaleboat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests" (Moby-Dick, Ch. 27). Although he is not an educated man, Stubb is remarkably articulate, and during whale hunts ...
An average August weekend in Cape Cod usually looks like scheduling an evening of lobster rolls at the Skipper Chowder House Yarmouth, followed by ice cream at the Sundae School in Dennisport ...
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans.
The Moby-Dick characters Ahab and Starbuck are both from Nantucket. The tragedy that inspired Melville to write Moby-Dick was the final voyage of the Nantucket whaler Essex . The island suffered great economic hardships, worsened by the "Great Fire" of July 13, 1846, that, fueled by whale oil and lumber, devastated the main town, burning some ...