Sunday, July 26, 2015

Melville Book Club #2 "The Belltower"

So this picture is my picture for "The Belltower".
It's kinda weird, it might even be dumb, my excuse is I was practicing drawing with a tablet and photoshop.

"Erelong he had a heavy object hoisted to the belfry, wrapped in a dark sack or cloak -- a procedure sometimes had in the case of an elaborate piece of sculpture, or statue, which, being intended to grace the front of a new edifice, the architect does not desire exposed to critical eyes till set up, finished, in its appointed place. Such was the impression now. But, as the object rose, a statuary present observed, or thought he did, that it was not entirely rigid, but was, in a manner, pliant. At last, when the hidden thing had attained its final height, and, obscurely seen from below, seemed almost of itself to step into the belfry, as if with little assistance from the crane, a shrewd old blacksmith present ventured the suspicion that it was but a living man. This surmise was thought a foolish one, while the general interest failed not to augment."


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