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Monday Seminar: “Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville

July 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm MDT

Free

21-Jul
Benito Cereno
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15859/15859-h/15859-h.htm#chap03
Herman Melville
80 pages

 

Excerpt:

In the year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor with a valuable cargo, in the harbor of St. Maria—a small, desert, uninhabited island toward the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water.

On the second day, not long after dawn, while lying in his berth, his mate came below, informing him that a strange sail was coming into the bay. Ships were then not so plenty in those waters as now. He rose, dressed, and went on deck.

The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter’s mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.

Details

Date:
July 21
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm MDT
Cost:
Free
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Website:
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Venue

Zoom Room: Every Other Monday Evening: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83082301498?pwd=ls65j4u9mbDPqEbL2WeNs07FSHjlzs.1
United States
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Stafford Wood
Phone
225-205-0090
Email
art@staffordwood.com
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