{"id":38677,"date":"2024-10-26T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=38677"},"modified":"2024-10-26T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:12:48","slug":"wlbott-the-gaping-maw-of-hell-and-home-repairs-part-i-of-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=38677","title":{"rendered":"WLBOTT, The Gaping Maw of Hell, and Home Repairs (part I of II)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All these years, I thought the phrase “the gaping maw of hell”<\/strong> was a line from Moby Dick<\/strong>. But no.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s break this down (from the full text archive at https:\/\/cdn.fulltextarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-advanced-pdf\/1\/Moby-Dick-or-The-Whalex8185.pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaping<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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CHAPTER 66: The Shark Massacre<\/strong>
They viciously snapped, not only at each other’s disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound<\/strong>. Nor was this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHAPTER 100: Leg and Arm<\/strong>
“Yes, I may as well,” said the surgeon, coolly. “I was about observing, sir, before Captain Boomer’s<\/strong> facetious interruption, that spite of my best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse; the truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping wound as surgeon ever saw<\/strong>; more than two feet and several inches long.<\/p>\nMoby Dick \/ Herman Melville<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Maw<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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CHAPTER 9: The Sermon<\/strong>
I saw the opening maw of hell<\/strong>, with endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell– Oh, I was plunging to despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints– No more the whale did me confine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With speed he flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne; Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHAPTER 70: The Sphynx<\/strong>
…muttered Ahab “[…] Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw<\/strong>; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed– while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHAPTER 72: The Monkey-Rope<\/strong>
Nevertheless, it may well be believed that since they have such a ravenous finger in the pie, it is deemed but wise to look sharp to them. Accordingly, besides the monkey-rope, with which I now and then jerked the poor fellow from too close a vicinity to the maw of what seemed a peculiarly ferocious shark<\/strong>–he was provided with still another protection.<\/p>\nMoby Dick \/ Herman Melville<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Hell<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Twenty-six occurrences? Oh, hell no. Too much work. Too much hell. Let’s just pick one. Let’s return to the sermon….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CHAPTER 9: The Sermon<\/strong>
… and all the watery world of woe bowled over him. Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet–‘out of the belly of hell’<\/strong>–when the whale grounded upon the ocean’s utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried. Then God spake unto the fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth; and ‘vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;’ when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised and beaten–his ears, like two sea-shells, still multitudinously murmuring of the ocean– Jonah did the Almighty’s bidding. And what was that, shipmates? To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!<\/strong> That was it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elder G, You Doin’ Okay?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elder G<\/strong> provided some very creepy images based on “The Gaping Maw of Hell.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elder G, is everything okay at home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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