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George Washington cannibalistically developed

池田光穂

"With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face at least to my taste\his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one. It may seem ridiculous, but it reminded me of General Washington's head, as seen in the popular busts of him. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope from above the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed." - In "CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend. ", MOBY DICK;or, THE WHALE, by Herman Melville

「……とにかく彼の頭部は優秀な骨相をそなえている といわなければならない。滑稽だと思われるかもしれないが、私にはそれは世に流布されているワシントン将軍の胸像を思わせた。つまり、眉毛から上にかけて ながながと規則的な段々をつくって後に傾斜して行きながらひどく突出しているさまが同じであって、しかもこの双の眉毛は、頂きが密林でおおわれた蜒々(え んえん)たる岬角に似ていた。クイークェグは食人種的発達をとげたジョージ・ワシントンである」――ハーマン・メルヴィル『白鯨(上)』阿部知二訳、岩波 文庫、97ページ

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