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The Piazza Tales Chapter 5, Sketch Third: Rodondo Summary

  • More Spenser. Go away Spenser.
  • Melville talks about how cool towers are in general.
  • Then he talks about a cool elevated Rock called Rock Redondo, or Round Rock.
  • It's a round rock. You can climb up it and look out and see far away. (Look! Turtles! Also…more rocks!)
  • But first the narrator (Melville, more or less) goes back and describes the first time he came to the Rodondo. It was pretty.
  • He says it's also a good place to see birds, like penguins and pelicans.
  • And then there are lots of fish in the water roundabout, who are easy to catch since they haven't dealt with human beings much.
  • And now up the rock.