Moby-Dick discussion

Here's the spot for the prose you found remarkable in chapters 68-80!

This from 79. The whole paragraph rocks, but this particular part made my jaw slack.

"But in most creatures, nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip of alpine land lying along the snow line. Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare’s or Melancthon’s rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer."

Where did the man learn to write like that? Superb!