tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post7696347794784181172..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Sculpting the Image of a Shapely NeckUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91906839758091604702011-04-30T09:58:22.405-05:002011-04-30T09:58:22.405-05:00There's an allusion to the filling-in of the B...There's an allusion to the filling-in of the Back Bay in Melville's Moby Dick. Boston readers will understand the reference, but probably few people elsewhere do:<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.americanliterature.com/Melville/MobyDickorTheWhale/100.html" rel="nofollow">And some certain significance lurks in all things</a>, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way."Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com