The Calvinist International
[This post is a little bit of an awkward fit for TCI, but I need somewhere to put it. And Melville…was…raised as a Calvinist…so…I guess it works?] The 200th anniversary of the birth of America’s greatest writer of fiction just passed. I mean Herman Melville, naturally. Melville was more or less an autodidact: one who […]
In Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the Pequod‘s journey gets underway on Christmas Day. Captains Peleg and Bildad accompany the ship out of harbor. Bildad takes the first watch. As he does so, he sings. Ishmael, the narrator, describes it, in Chapter 22 (“Merry Christmas”): Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as the […]