You'd think it would have been. It was the basis for a major pop song in the '60s, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by The Byrds.

To quote Moby-Dick:

"We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bed-clothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."

There's a great passage where a character is watching a space launch and the light trail is described as an thin curving arc toward Jupiter.