Just now reading "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and stumbled into this in Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker:
"Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat...As I kept passing and repassing the filling or WOOF of marline between the long yarns of the WARP... that it seemed as if this were the LOOM of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates."
i noticed a bit of a line in moby dick the other day that was three words, i cant remember what they were but they were an exact three words to three words in one of her songs
i noticed a bit of a line in moby dick the other day that was three words, i cant remember what they were but they were an exact three words to three words in one of her songs
Just now reading "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville and stumbled into this in Chapter 47: The Mat-Maker:
"Queequeg and I were mildly employed weaving what is called a sword-mat...As I kept passing and repassing the filling or WOOF of marline between the long yarns of the WARP... that it seemed as if this were the LOOM of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at the Fates."
Joanna Newsom "A loom of metal, warp woof wimble"
Coincidence?
i noticed a bit of a line in moby dick the other day that was three words, i cant remember what they were but they were an exact three words to three words in one of her songs
i noticed a bit of a line in moby dick the other day that was three words, i cant remember what they were but they were an exact three words to three words in one of her songs
The warp and the woof are the two different threads that you weave together on a loom. The warp is the vertical thread and the woof is the horizontal.
The warp and the woof are the two different threads that you weave together on a loom. The warp is the vertical thread and the woof is the horizontal.
I would assume a "loom of metal" to be a harp, but it doesn't really fit warp/woof (actual loom phrases) or "wimble" (a kind of drill)
I would assume a "loom of metal" to be a harp, but it doesn't really fit warp/woof (actual loom phrases) or "wimble" (a kind of drill)