Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!dartvax!chip From: chip@dartvax.UUCP (Brig Elliott) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: The Heidelburg Tun...? Message-ID: <2267@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 16:09:41 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2267 Posted: Sat Aug 4 16:09:41 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 08:26:45 EDT References: <2656@allegra.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 13 Moby Dick is indeed the finest novel ever written, or close to it. (War and Peace and -- above all -- Remembrance of Things Past are the only two serious contenders, in my living room.) But... I do have one question about Moby Dick. Melville at one point compares a whale's great bony fluid chamber to the celebrated Heidelburg Tun. Which is evidently some sort of huge, embellished barrel, to judge from the description. Does anyone out there know what the original Heidelburg Tun is? (Hello, Germany?) Chip Elliott ..dartvax!chip