Saturday, March 21, 2020

MOBY-DICK, page 484

Title: "Look aloft!" cried Starbuck. "The St. Elmo's Lights (corpus sancti) corpusants! the corpusants!"

All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.

11 x 7.5 inches
acrylic paint and ballpoint pen on found paper
December 8, 2010

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