Moby-Dick, or, The Whale. Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation.
Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors V.ix: Of the horns of Moses. Chap. IX. Of the Picture of Moses with Horns. IN many pieces, and some of ancient Bibles, Moses is described with horns.[1] The same description we finde in a silver Medal; that is, upon one side Moses horned, and on the reverse the commandment against sculptile Images. Which is conceived to be a coynage of some Jews, in derision of Christians, who first began that Pourtract.[2] The ground of this absurdity, was surely a mistake of the Hebrew Text, in the history of Moses when he descended from the Mount;3 upon the affinity of Kæren and Karan, that is, an horn, and to shine, which is one quality of horn: The Vulgar Translation conforming unto the former.
Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies ejus. And this passage of the Old Testament, is well explained by another of the New;4 wherein it is delivered, that they could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses, Διὰ τὴν δόξαν τοῦ προσώπου; that is, for the glory of his countenance. 3 Exod. 34.29, 35. 4 2 Cor. 3.[7-8: 8. 5 [Joshua 2 and 6. Thomas Beale. The natural history of the sperm whale : its anato. Thomas Beale. The natural history of the sperm whale : its anato. Cycnos |Lecture du visage : réflexions autour de “La Prairie” (< The purpose of the article is to understand the process through which Melville builds up the face of the Whale as it appears in chapter 79 (“The Prairie”). Starting from the notion of the wrinkled skin and the paradox of an engraved surface, the author examines the various passages where faces emerge before the eyes of both Ishmael and Ahab.
As an act of perception common to the subject and the object, the emergence of the face opens the way to a comparison between hunting and describing. The two attitudes are fundamental to the actual looming up of the face out of the negative surface of the naked front. Through this gradual movement, the vacancy of the forehead becomes an overflowing of possibilities, and the absence of specific features the ground for endless comparisons in which is forged the unity of the worldhunter and prey, face and landscape, a whole universe included in and converging towards the all‑encompassing face of the Whale. 2Le front devient le lieu d’une apparition.