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Bambang Irawan Posted 11 years ago
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Moby Dick Novels
What does "Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries " mean ?
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Circumambulate,dreamy Sabbath,silent sentinels,mortal men,and
ocean reveries.
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Circumambulate = walk around dreamy Sabbath: the Sabbath is the holy day of the week, Sunday for a Christian. silent sentinels; a sentinel is a guard or watchman mortal men: human beings ocean reveries; daydreaming of the ocean Do you have a good dictionary?
- Circumambulate = walk around dreamy Sabbath: the Sabbath is the holy day of the week, Sunday for a Christian.
- silent sentinels; a sentinel is a guard or watchman mortal men: human beings ocean reveries; daydreaming of the ocean Do you have a good dictionary?
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Circumambulate = walk around
dreamy Sabbath: the Sabbath is the holy day of the week, Sunday for a Christian.
silent sentinels; a sentinel is a guard or watchman
mortal men: human beings
ocean reveries; daydreaming of the ocean
Do you have a good dictionary?
dreamy Sabbath: the Sabbath is the holy day of the week, Sunday for a Christian.
silent sentinels; a sentinel is a guard or watchman
mortal men: human beings
ocean reveries; daydreaming of the ocean
Do you have a good dictionary?
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Corlears Hook, Coenties Slip, and Whitehall (Street) are all locations in lower Manhattan that had a connection to shopping, and would have been well known to sailors of the time.
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