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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 86 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 86 The Tail Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights less celestial I celebrate a tail. Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale s tail to begin at that point of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man it comprises upon its upper surface alone an area of at least fifty square feet. The compact round body of its root expands into two broad firm flat palms or flukes gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness. At the crotch or junction these flukes slightly overlap then sideways recede from each other like wings leaving a wide vacancy between. In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost expansion in the full grown whale the tail will considerably exceed twenty feet across. The entire member seems a dense webbed bed of welded sinews but cut into it and you find that three distinct strata compose it - upper middle and lower. The fibres in the upper and lower layers are long and horizontal those of the middle one very short and running crosswise between the outside layers. This triune structure as much as anything else imparts power to the tail. To the student of old Roman walls the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful relics of the antique and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the great strength of the masonry. But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes insensibly blend with them and largely contribute to their might so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point. Could annihilation occur to matter this
