All 3 Uses of
vortex
in
Moby Dick
- Over Descartian vortices you hover.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.†
Chpt 133-135
- So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(vortex) the shape of something rotating rapidly -- such as a tornado
or: a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)