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From: chip@dartvax.UUCP (Brig Elliott)
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Subject: The Heidelburg Tun...?
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Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 16:09:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  4 16:09:41 1984
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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