MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 3 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 3 The Spouter Inn Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn you found yourself in a wide low straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly besmoked and every way defaced that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it and careful inquiry of the neighbors that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose. Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist in the time of the New England hags had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of much and earnest contemplation and oft repeated ponderings and especially by throwing open the little window towards the back of the entry you at last come to the conclusion that such an idea however wild might not be altogether unwarranted. But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long limber portentous black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue dim perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. A boggy soggy squitchy picture truly enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite half-attained unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright but alas deceptive idea would dart you It s the Black Sea in a midnight It s the unnatural combat of the four primal It s a blasted It s a Hyperborean winter It s the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time. But last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture s midst. That once found out and all the rest were plain. But stop does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish even the great leviathan himself In
