Mind in the main-top, body in the bilge: space and the human form in Melville's White-Jacket.

From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,' that would not make it any less a part of the body.... But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you,' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you." ... If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. (I ...

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