After a little while I became possessed with the keenest curiosity about the whirl itself. This state of things, however, did not last long enough to give us time to think about it. Each moment added to its speed -- to its headlong impetuosity. All this time I had never let go of the ring-bolt. [ C] [ [n]] The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works, which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. I called to mind the great variety of buoyant matter that strewed the coast of Lofoden, having been absorbed and then thrown forth by the Moskoe-strm. Poe learnt about the maelstrom from several sources, which included an 1834 story in Frasers Magazine titled The Maelstrom: A Fragment. When a fishing boat encounters a hurricane it gets thrown off course into the area of the Maelstrom. "A Descent into the Maelstrm" is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. The sky was clear, the winds had gone down, and the full moon was setting radiantly in the west, when I found myself on the surface of the ocean, in full view of the shores of Lofoden, and above the spot where the pool of the Moskoe-strm had been. "We Norwegians call it the Moskoe-strm, from the island of Moskoe in the midway." I knew what he meant by that one word well enough I knew what he wished to make me understand. The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not asourways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to the vastness, profundity, and unsearchableness of His works,which have a depth in them greater than the well of Democritus. Round and round we swept -- not with any uniform movement -- but in dizzying swings and jerks, that sent us sometimes only a few hundred yards -- sometimes nearly the complete circuit of the whirl. The mountain upon whose top we sit is Helseggen, the Cloudy. In this direction I was able to obtain an unobstructed view, from the manner in which the smack hung on the inclined surface of the pool. A Descent into the Maelstrm. "A Descent into the Maelstrm" is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction. The wind sometimes was not as strong as we thought it at starting, and then we made rather less way than we could wish, while the current rendered the smack unmanageable. He explained to me -- although I have forgotten the explanation -- how what I observed was, in fact, the natural consequence of the forms of the floating fragments -- and showed me how it happened that a cylinder, swimming in a vortex, offered more resistance to its suction, and was drawn in with greater difficulty than an equally bulky body, of any form whatever. We might analyse the maelstrom as a symbol representing the force of time as well as nature. To be sure, I thought, we shall get there just about the slack there is some little hope in that but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all. If I had not known where we were, and what we had to expect, I should not have recognised the place at all. Do you hear any thing? I suppose it was despair that strung my nerves. The old man recounts his ordeal that in less than a single day changed his hairs from a jetty black to white, weakened his limbs, and t unstrung his nerves. Descent into the Maelstrom (2019) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middle of the surge, and then nearer and nearer to its horrible inner edge. The three of us my two brothers and myself had crossed over to the islands about two oclock P. M., and had soon nearly loaded the smack with fine fish, which, we all remarked, were more plenty that day than we had ever known them. The Descent 2005 R 1 h 39 m IMDb RATING 7.2 /10 228K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 812 812 Play trailer 2:04 1 Video 99+ Photos Adventure Horror Thriller A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. "The island in the distance," resumed the old man, "is called by the Norwegians Vurrgh. I now tell it to you -- and I can scarcely expect you to put more faith in it than did the merry fishermen of Lofoden. I saw our exact position in an instant. Upon this occasion we should have been driven out to sea in spite of everything, (for the whirlpools threw us round and round so violently, that, at length, we fouled our anchor and dragged it) if it had not been that we drifted into one of the innumerable cross currents -- here to-day and gone to-morrow -- which drove us under the lee of Flimen, where, by good luck, we brought up. js.id=id; The vortex was spinning at incredible speeds. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to starboard, and rushed headlong into the abyss. The lids clenched themselves together as if in a spasm. I really dug (yeah, I'm using that word) Poe's inclusion of physics near the end of the story. You really see and hear the fellows drawn into the eye of the storm and you feel the rage of the elements. 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