Posted Thursday morning, August 1, 2019.
Arrowhead in winter: The back of Herman Melville's house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, November 21, 2016, by Chris Wolak.
“I have a sort of sea-feeling here in the country, now that the ground is all covered with snow,” Melville wrote from Arrowhead, in December of 1850. “I look out my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic. My room seems a ship’s cabin; & at nights when I wake up & hear the wind shrieking, I almost fancy there is too much sail on the house, & I had better go on the roof & rig the chimney.”
---Herman Melville writing to a friend about his new home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in December of 1850, quoted by Jill Lepore in her essay in the New Yorker, “Ahab at Home”.
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